Steve MinOn was an internationally awarded advertising copywriter and a restaurateur before becoming a writer of fiction. He grew up in the Whitsundays and he now lives in Meanjin/Brisbane. Steve’s debut novel First Name Second Name (UQP 2025) won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer in the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards.

Often writing about outsiders and his family’s mixed-race ancestral history, Steve’s articles and short stories have been published in SBS Voices, Mamamia and various newspapers and anthologies.