Matthew Schreuder is a writer, who lives in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. In 2006 his verse novel

Verse novel

A verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose. Either simple or complex stanzaic verse-forms may be used, but there will usually be a large cast, multiple voices, dialogue, narration, description, and action in a...

 'Muscle' was short listed and highly commended in the annual 'The Australian'/Vogel Literary Award. 'Muscle' has been commended for offering originality and a very contemporary story of astute social observations. Its characters are drawn from a youth subculture of muscle car street racers, set against a future Sydney backdrop of social unrest similar to the 2005 Cronulla riots.

Matthew Schreuder currently works at Sydney's Barker College

Barker College

Barker College is an independent Anglican, day and boarding school, located in Hornsby, a North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1890 by the Reverend Henry Plume at Kurrajong Heights, Barker is an all-boys school from Kindergarten to Year 9, and co-educational from...

as an English teacher.

External links

Arcadia, an imprint of Australian Scholarly Publishing, www.scholarly.info