Born 1971, in country Victoria, Australia, Burrage grew up in Melbourne.

He began writing fiction in the late 1990s, with his first short story was published in 2001.

In that year Burrage was awarded a mentorship by the NSW Writers’ Centre to develop an early version of his debut novel, FIVEFOLD.

In January 2005, Burrage was selected to attend Clarion South, the Australian equivalent of the US residential short story workshop.

With the benefit of this experience, he was able to secure a literary agent and FIVEFOLD was sold to Random House Australia in January 2007.