Staff Bios

These are the faces of Cut Lunch Lit. Aren't we pretty?

Rachel | Andy | Tim | Liz | Bec

	Rachel Astruc Email: rachel@cutlunchlit.com Website: rachelastruc.com Rachel Astruc writes under various uninspired pseudonyms and has 'done' just about everything from lesbian erotica and new-wave science fiction to pulp fantasy and vampire poetry. She also does very, very bad comic strips. Editors and cowriters the world over hate her for never meeting deadlines and being a lazy so-and-so. Rachel lives in constant fear that her parents may stumble upon some of her more risque works and write her out of the family will.
	Andy Bain-King Email: andy@cutlunchlit.com Nicholi Brezhnev, aka Andy Bain-King, was born in a small rural town in Slovenia. His mother died when he was one and his father left him in the care of Nanny, the local donkey. After inventing the parsnip, Nicholi failed in his bid to get the local peasants to pay a five rouble royalty for every parsnip they grew. Nicholi fled Slovenia in 1986, after a failed attempted to take The People’s President hostage with a zucchini. Witnesses who saw him flee the claim he was to be heard muttering ‘If only I had two… Two would have made all the difference.’ Since then Nicholi has spent exile hidden in Melbourne. Most of his energies have been expended on writing doctrines inciting the masses to rise up and topple the despots. In his spare time Nicholi has been posing as a student writing sub-standard wish-wash for Deakin University.
	Tim Baxter Email: tim@cutlunchlit.com Website: hypercritical.net Tim writes in about 14 billion different genres. When he wrote his first poem at thirteen, it was such a hit that he was sent to the year level co-ordinator's office. A few years later, after reading one of his stories, his School Counsellor asked him if he had any associations between the female orgasm and death. Tim misses that time in his life. Nowadays, no-one cares what he writes about.
	Liz Haris Email: liz@cutlunchlit.com Liz is, as we speak, finishing up her undergrad in writing this year (2 months to go, yay!), but she still has no clue as to what to do with herself in the future. So she joined the Cut Lunch team. And now she can’t get rid of them. She writes fiction, but her passion lies in film writing. Some day she hopes to live near the sea in a big house with lots of money, a rich husband and perfect kids...ha, who’s she kidding? She’s a writer. Things like that don’t happen to writers. But maybe it will to this one. One can only hope...
	Bec Whitehead Email: bec@cutlunchlit.com Website: Walrus Rebecca Whitehead remembers when she used to eat mud; you can't go downhill from there. She studies Professional Writing at Deakin Uni, writes scripts, short stories and creative non-fiction articles about music and people, but not poetry. She loves The Darkness, but, ironically, is afraid of the dark.