George Watt is an academic and author. His published works include critical studies such as The Fallen Woman in the 19^th Century English Novel recently rereleased by Routledge, and the first full-length study of an influential postcolonial writer in Interlogue Studies in Singapore Literature Volume 5: Robert Yeo.  His poetry has appeared in four volumes of Mingled Voices, and his collection, Sandpaper Swimming: going after Burke and Wills, was published by Flying Island Books in 2019.  He has held academic posts in Australia, USA, Japan and Macau, including at the Australian National University, several years as Professor Dean in the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Asian Studies at Nagoya Shoka Daigaku, and finally as Founding Master in the recent collegiate restructuring of the University of Macau. The Finley Confession, his first novel, was one of two winners of the Proverse Prize 2020.