Greg Bogaerts lives in Newcastle, Australia. He has had many short stories and articles published in journals, newspapers and anthologies in Australia and America. Some of his work has been translated into Arabic. Most of his stories deal with people living in Newcastle. The stories examine the life and death struggles of Novocastrians as they attempt to rise above unemployment, poverty and the violence that accompanies such destitution.

In recent times Greg has changed direction using the paintings of Van Gogh and the fiction of Zola and Balzac as inspirations for a series of short stories set in 19th century Montmartre.

Save yourself from the American cultural Tsunami. Read Greg Bogaerts' distinctively, shamelessly Australian story and chuck away your Deputy Sherrif's badge. Be your own cultural copper and find Australian black gold.
Bruce Pascoe 2005

Unaffected, humane, knowledgeable about people and places, the elemental earth and the people who work upon it, Greg Bogaerts' voice is an important one for Australian literature. Newcastle needs its stories told, and Greg Bogaerts is well equipped to tell them.
Nicholas Birns New School University (New York), Editor Antipodes