Duncan Sarkies is a writer of novels, theatre, and screen stories for film and television. He has been recognised with the Best First Book of Fiction Award at the New Zealand Book Awards for Stray Thoughts and Nosebleeds, and the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. Duncan has received the Louis Johnson New Writers' Bursary, the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship, and a residency at the Michael King Writers Centre. Duncan's screenplays include Scarfies, and the adaptation of his first novel Two Little Boys, both collaborations with his brother Robert. Duncan has written for TV including Flight of the Conchords and What We Do in the Shadows, and wrote, directed, and co-created the acclaimed audio series The Mysterious Secrets of Uncle Bertie's Botanarium. Star Gazers is his third novel.