Geoff Hill grew up in Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe. In 1980 he joined the Manica Post newspaper on the border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. After the nationalisation of the press in 1982, he moved to Australia and spent eight years with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

In the past 20 years he has worked in Australia, the USA, Britain, Zimbabwe and several other African countries and is currently Africa correspondent for the Washington Times.

In September 2000 he became the first non-American to receive a John Steinbeck Award for short story writing and also won the 2000 Commonwealth Short Story Award for Africa.