About
Andrew McDougall is a New Zealand-born author based in Melbourne, Australia. His work spans literary fiction, non-fiction, photography and multimedia, drawing on a career that has taken him from the mountains of New Zealand to enterprise architecture projects across four continents.
After leaving school in 1980, Andrew spent a decade working in the outdoor recreation industry in New Zealand and Scotland as a ski patroller, guide and outdoor educator. Those years in the mountains, rivers and wilderness continue to shape his writing.
Following the publication of Godzone: The Book of New Zealand in 1992, Andrew built a thirty-year career in Information Technology across New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States. Alongside his professional career, he continued to write, co-authoring B2B e-Commerce with WebSphere Commerce (2002) and publishing essays and articles, including This (Unenlightened) Life in The Australian (2007).
His photography and multimedia work has been exhibited at the Tranz-Fix Multimedia Festival in Sydney (2000), the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne (2008), and White Night Melbourne (2014).
Current Novel
Under the Bridge, Before the Storm is an 85,000-word work of contemporary literary fiction set in Wellington, Melbourne, Daegu and Kyoto.
Photographer Hamish Cameron is drawn into the world of museum curator Isabella after they find a Japanese fishing float on a remote New Zealand beach. But when costume designer Claire sees Hamish's exhibition flyer in Melbourne, and Isabella disappears, the choices each has made lead them towards a bridge in Kyoto and a reckoning with the past.