Greg lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife, Sherrie.

Having majored in literature and history at Monash University, he formerly worked for the Victorian Ministry for the Arts and is currently engaged, part-time, by the Department of Education.

Like many emerging writers, Greg's creative energies have been constrained by the necessity of paid employment elsewhere. Nonetheless - and with the encouragement and support of Sherrie - he has pursued a passion for literary fiction, his efforts reaching maturity with the completion of Pelsaert's Nightmare.

As a manuscript, this work was shortlisted for the 2016 First Novel Prize (UK) and was a First Place Category winner in the 2018 Chaucer Book Awards for Pre-1750s Historical Fiction. Published in 2020 by The Grayson Press, Pelsaert’s Nightmare won a Gold Medal in the 25th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards (USA) for Best Regional Fiction in the Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Rim.

As a creative adjunct to Pelsaert’s Nightmare in its novel form, Greg has also produced a screenplay of the story.

In addition to travelling overseas (including the territories of Mogul India, the Netherlands and more recently, France), Greg and Sherrie visited the Abrolhos Islands in Western Australia, scene of one of history’s most notorious maritime episodes. Greg is currently working on a new historical fiction, based on the Valhallan twilight of the Napoleonic epoch.

Gregory Warwick Hansen