Lewie JPD (Bryce Courtenay Award winner)
Lewie JPD was born in Kings Cross on Elvis’s birthday, grew up in the Aussie bush until ten, then spent the next eight years in Tokyo, Japan.
He started writing comedy skits for television (NHK Tokyo) at the age of fifteen. Since then he hasn’t stopped writing – for film, TV, radio and magazines; living and working in the US, Japan and Australia.
Lewie JPD has contributed to mainstream periodicals such as Black & White, Good Weekend, Independent Film and Arena as well as editing and publishing 50+ issues of three underground zines since 1991 – Free Spirit, Scripthead and Idle.
He has written six feature film scripts – one of which, Tokyo Rush, has been optioned in Japan.
His first book, All I’ve Ever Wanted Was What I Know I Can Never Have, a collection of his humourous writings, was published in 2001 and his latest work, Eat A Rainbow and Shit Gold Nuggets, now complete, is due for publication in early 2007.
He currently resides in Byron Bay, where he writes and performs a weekly comedy radio show, The Wonderful Thing, on Bay FM and is directing a feature-length documentary about Byron’s creative utopians called Bliss Jockeys.
Generally speaking, he likes being a human.