Chris Lawson (writer)

Chris Lawson is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.

[1][2] During his childhood Lawson spent time in Papua New Guinea, where his father worked as a biologist on a crocodile farm and his mother studied psychology of personal identity.

[1] Later he studied medicine, attaining a graduate diploma in biostatistics, epidemiology and human genetics.

[3] Lawson worked for the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service and Merck Sharp & Dohme.

[3] Lawson's first work was published in 1993, entitled "Metacarcinoma" his short story was published in the Summer 1993 edition of Eidolon (Australian magazine).