Carl Shuker is a former editor at the British Medical Journal and currently manager
of scientific publications at Te Tahu Hauora Health Quality and Safety Commission. He is the author of six novels - The Method Actors (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005), winner of the Prize in Modern Letters in 2006; The Lazy Boys (Counterpoint & Penguin, 2006); Three Novellas for a Novel (2008; Mansfield Road Press, 2011), Anti Lebanon (Counterpoint, 2013), A Mistake (Te Herenga Waka University Press & Counterpoint, 2019), which has been adapted for film, and The Royal Free (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024 & Counterpoint, 2025). He
lives in Wellington with his wife Anna Smaill and their two children.