Paul Burns attended Victoria University of Wellington and taught at primary schools in Naenae and Whanganui before moving to London in 1978, where he still lives. His interest in writing followed helping survivors of torture to set down their stories for legal and therapeutic purposes. In 2012, he won the Leonard A. Koval Memorial Prize for his short story, Folie à Deux. Two novels, Mr Vitriol and The Bush Baptist have appeared in print and more recently an ebook of short stories, The Fetish Collection.http://paulburns.site50.net/