Benjamin Law is a Brisbane-based writer and a frequent contributor to frankie, The Monthly and Qweekend. He has also written for The Walkley Magazine, Sunday Life, Cleo, Crikey, The Big Issue, The Griffith Review, The Courier Mail, Travel and Leisure: South East Asia, The Australian Way (Qantas), the AAP and others. His essays have been anthologised in The Best Australian Essays twice, and his debut book The Family Law (2010) was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). He’s working on his second book, out in 2012.