Michael McGirr

Michael McGirr, born in 1961, is an essayist, reviewer, prize-winning short-story writer and teacher. A former Jesuit priest, he has been the publisher of Eureka Street and editor of Australian Catholics ; and is the author of Unhinged Saints , Tim Winton: the writer and his work , Bypass: the story of a road , and The Lost Art of Sleep . He lives in Melbourne with his wife, Jenny, and their three children.

Michael McGirr, born in 1961, is an essayist, reviewer, prize-winning short-story writer and teacher. A former Jesuit priest, he has been the publisher of Eureka Street and editor of Australian Catholics ; and is the author of Unhinged Saints , Tim Winton: the writer and his work , Bypass: the story of a road , and The Lost Art of Sleep . He lives in Melbourne with his wife, Jenny, and their three children. See less