ABOUT HENRY NEILSEN

Henry is an Aurealis award nominated sci-fi/horror writer, musician and recovering tech enthusiast based in Melbourne, Australia. His work has been featured in Aurealis Magazine and TL;DR press, and he self-published his first novel in early 2025. His stories usually interrogate the conceit of technology as a saviour, and focus on the characters who aren’t the benefactors of technological progress.

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He is a quorum member of Meridian Australis, a speculative fiction collective in Melbourne, and is passionate about lifting the speculative fiction scene in Melbourne and Australia more broadly. He is an anti-generative AI advocate, and writes cultural and technological critique essays on his Substack.

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When not writing, Henry can be found playing tunes on his baritone guitar, talking someone's ear off about something nerdy, or staying up too late to watch Formula One.