Photography by Carmen Zammit
Garth is a writer from Wilyakali country in the deserts of far western New South Wales, Australia – the Mad Max zone.
His first job was designing ads for phone sex lines; he did time as resident Atheist provocateur at a church newspaper, and drew comics for David Lee Roth just out of uni.
Garth’s first novel, the independently published Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets, was shortlisted for a variety of prizes. Walkley Award-winning journalist Richard Cooke (Tired of Winning: A Chronicle of American Decline) reckons “there’s nothing like Home Brewed… it’s new, weird, and out there, and that makes it too good not to get into”.
Black Pills, a collection of genre-bending short fiction exploring the unmitigated disaster that is our present reality, was released in April 2025, and features the Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Award-winning ‘Hugo Garrett’s Exemplary Mowing Technique’.
Film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (1000 Women In Horror) says Garth is “the punk lit cowboy the world needs right now”.
His work has also been published in Creeper, Punk Noir and Nightmare Fuel Magazine.
The Stack, Garth’s regular book segment, appears monthly on The Justin Hamilton Podcast. It currently has over half a million downloads.
He currently lives on the west coast of Aotearoa/ New Zealand with his partner, their kid and a dog named Zodiac Mindwarp.
