Eddy Knight was born and raised in Britain’s West Country, arriving in South Australia in 1990. He worked for many years as a bench hand joiner, before becoming an actor and then a theatre director.

Eddy has worked with Howard Barker’s The Wrestling School, both in the U.K. and for the 2000 Adelaide Festival, the Bell Shakespeare Company, Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, State Theatre of South Australia, Brink, and many of Adelaide’s semi-professional companies.

Having had two plays produced locally and in New Zealand and come runner up in a couple of literary competitions, Eddy was offered a place in the Creative Writing program of the University of Adelaide, gaining a PhD in 2017.

In 2018 Eddy was shortlisted in the Alan Marshall short story competition. He is a member of the Adelaide Writers’ Group and lives with his partner and two Siamese cats close to the sea in Port Adelaide.

Truth Serum Press published Eddy’s short story collection A Short Walk to the Sea in January 2020.

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Eddy has contributed to the anthologies Envy, Pride , Stories My Gay Uncle Told Me and Wrong Way Go Back.

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