E. Shane Birchall brings nearly twenty years of experience with the New South Wales Police Force to his writing, including eleven years as a crime scene examiner.

He holds a Diploma of Applied Science in Forensic Investigation from the Canberra Institute of Technology. With more than thirty years of martial arts experience, he also holds a First Dan Black Belt in Kyokushin Karate.

Living on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, Birchall draws on these experiences in his first published work, The Will Stanley Trilogy.