Danyl McLauchlan

Author photo: Russell Kleyn

Danyl McLauchlan studied biology and computer science at Victoria University of Wellington, and worked and travelled in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, before he returned to Wellington, where he works at the VUW School of Biology. He is the author of the comic noir novels Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley (2013) and Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley (2016), and the essay collection Tranquillity and Ruin (2021). His essays on literature, politics, economics, science and philosophy appear on The Spinoff and in the NZ Listener.