Peter Macinnis
Peter Macinnis is a science writer who lives in Sydney. His wife is a science teacher, their daughter has a PhD in environmental biology, one son is doing his PhD on beer yeasts and their genetics, the other son is a lawyer. They are still trying to work out where they went wrong.
Peter got his start in writing with text books, and also wrote rude letters for a Minister for Education who liked to give rude replies to rude letters. This gave him the chance to be rude while somebody else took the blame. He also did some journalism along the way.
He began writing science talks for radio in 1985 and has been at it ever since, but his main job for more than thirty years was as an educator, either as a teacher, or as a bureaucrat, or in one of two museums that he worked in, and most recently, writing science content for an online encyclopaedia.
He has now officially "retired from teaching" and works full-time as a writer, in between travelling as much as he can. Most of his work is written for adult readers and looks at the curious stories behind things, and recent titles have covered sugar, rockets, and most recently, poisons and poisoners. That book as been published (in translation) in Slovakia and Poland, and Russian and Korean editions are on the way.
