BIO

Christian Maitland-Smith hails from Auckland, New Zealand. He has been writing on and off since the age of twelve. Christian considers himself a student of life, and therefore enjoys injecting the irony and less than occasional bleakness he has observed and experienced into his writing, viewing the expression of such sentiments/emotions more as a matter of owning and therefore gaining power over pain and darkness than one of maudlin wallowing. Christian is however aware that when he falls under the influence of drink and cheesy angst the latter looms dangerously close.

Christian is 25 years old, a Libran, and a born and bred New Zealander. He has an undue fondness for Jamesons whiskey, cigars, the writings of Lord Byron, Irish dance music, and Black Sabbath among other odd and mismatched things. His tertiary education has been sporadic but satisfying, and he is now studying computing because he considers it a feasible way to gain employment that will pay for his assorted vices. His homepage can be found at http://www.geocities.com/suibhnegeilt.He can be contacted via email at madsuibhne@yahoo.com.

Those interested in dark arts and culture in Christian's homeland may find out more at http://gunz.nitro.gen.nz.