Campbell McConachie grew up in Sydney, Bahrain and Papua New Guinea. He has worked in the finance industry for twenty years. He studied Post-Graduate English at the University of Sydney and completed a Master of Arts (Creative Writing) at Western Sydney University. He interviewed infamous murderer Lindsey Rose in prison more than twenty-five times for his first book, The Fatalist: The fascinating true story of a cold-blooded killer and the man who accidentally befriended him.