Steve MinOn was an internationally awarded advertising copywriter and a restaurateur before becoming a writer of fiction. He grew up in North Queensland, and he now lives on Turrbal land in Magandjin/Brisbane. The manuscript for Steve’s debut novel First Name Second Name (UQP 2025) won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer in the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards and when published was shortlisted for People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year in 2025. He has written often about outsiders and his family’s mixed-race ancestral history, and his articles and short stories have been published in SBS Voices and various newspapers and anthologies.

Steve is represented by Martin Shaw @ The Books Desk.