Benjamin Law (writer)

Born in around 1982[1] Nambour, Queensland,[2] to immigrant parents from Hong Kong and Malaysia,[3] He was educated at Immanuel Lutheran College on the Sunshine Coast.

[7] In 2012 Law published Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East, a journalistic exploration of LGBT life in Asia.

[8] At the 2012 Sydney Writers' Festival,[9] he presented on the topic of bullying, for a panel with Wendy Harmer and Paul Capsis.

[11] As a journalist, he has contributed to publications including Frankie, The Australian Financial Review, The Saturday Paper,[12] The Monthly (including a 2014 supplement on the Museum of Old and New Art), The Courier-Mail and its Qweekend supplement, Griffith Review, New Matilda,[13] Fairfax Media's Good Weekend magazine, The Big Issue and Crikey.

[1] Law is founder member of the Australian Writers' Guild's Diversity and Inclusion Action Committee, along with Kodie Bedford and others.