Sam Vincent’s first book, Blood and Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars (Black Inc., 2014) was longlisted for the 2015 Walkley Book Award, shortlisted for the 2015 Nib Waverly Library Award for Literature and shortlisted for the 2015 ACT Book of the Year Award. The book developed from his story ‘Harpooned’, which was published in Griffith Review 37: Small World. His writing has been published in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Saturday Paper, Griffith Review, the Monthly, the Australian and Monocle. He lives in Canberra.