Malcolm Burgess has worked a wide variety of roles, from Books Editor at the Dominion Post to arts writer and reviewer for publications including the Financial Times, Irish Times, New Zealand's Listener and the New Zealand Herald. Currently Arts Practice Director, Literature, for Creative New Zealand, Malcolm is a longtime science fiction fan and reader. In the 2000s he edited a small literary magazine, which published some of the work of Phillip Mann, whose work he will be discussing at Featherston Booktown.