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Damian McDonald (writer)
Damian McDonald (born Canberra, Australia, 11 September 1969) is a contemporary Australian novelist, who won the 2007 ABC Fiction Award () for his novel ''Luck in the Greater West''. He also plays bass guitar in the rock band Quayleaf ().
==Biography==
Damian McDonald was born in Canberra and raised by his single mother until she married his stepfather when McDonald was five. His one sibling, a sister, was born in 1974. McDonald's stepfather was an alcoholic and abusive, and McDonald and his sister endured years of poverty and violence. This experience would be a theme portrayed in McDonald's writing. In late primary school and early high school McDonald discovered rock music such as Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, and Sex Pistols. McDonald bought a guitar and began jamming with like-minded friends and found an outlet for the frustration he was experiencing in his unhappy home life. However, because of his passion for music, McDonald didn't fit in with the mainstream students, and subsequently took out his frustrations on other pupils, mirroring his father's behaviour as he became a school bully, recruiting friends to beat up weaker kids. No doubt he would feel deep shame and remorse in later life, thinking about the violence he dished out to others. In 1986, at age 16, McDonald left school and home, and moved to Sydney where a musician friend had moved several months earlier. His plan was to become a professional rock musician.
Years of toiling in factories and warehouses while rehearsing and playing gigs with Sydney hard rock bands such as Warspite, Detriment and Money Tree Seeds began to take a toll on McDonald, who was seeing his dream of becoming a successful musician eaten away by a lack of support, overindulgence in drugs and alcohol and destructive relationships. In 1996 he made the decision to give music a break for a while. But despairing at the thought of becoming a full-time permanent factory worker led him back to school. McDonald began a Bachelor of Arts in Communication at the University of Canberra after quitting work and returning to the ACT. Without a job, McDonald found accommodation in Canberra's notorious (now demolished) Burnie Court ACT Housing Trust estate. There McDonald met many of the characters that would feature in his work. Growing frustrated with Canberra, McDonald moved back to Sydney and completed a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in English Literature at the University of Western Sydney. Having discovered a passion for reading and writing literature. McDonald then completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Western Sydney, topping his year.
McDonald now lives in Sydney, works as a curator at the Powerhouse Museum, writes for and plays bass in his band Quayleaf (), and writes literature. He has one daughter.
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