Jock Serong

Jock Serong is an Australian writer.

Serong grew up in Melbourne’s bayside suburbs and completed his secondary education at Xavier College in Kew. From years 4-8 he attended Xavier’s Kostka Hall junior campus in Brighton. He graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1995 with an LLB. He now resides in Port Fairy in regional Victoria with his wife and children.

He is a former lawyer, and also majored in archaeology at university. He co-edited the short-lived journal Great Ocean Quarterly established in 2013.

Bibliography

• Quota (Text Publishing, 2014)
• The Rules of Backyard Cricket (Text Publishing, 2016)
• On the Java Ridge (Text Publishing, 2017)
• Preservation (Text Publishing, 2019)
• The Burning Island (Text Publishing, 2020)
• The Settlement (Text Publishing, 2022)
• Cherrywood (Fourth Estate, 2024)

Preservation, The Burning Island and The Settlement are a trilogy of historical novels set in and around the Furneaux Islands in Bass Strait and south-east Australia.

He contributed to the collection Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined (Fremantle Press, 2022).

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