Tom Doig is an author, editor, journalist and academic. He has written two books about the 2014 Hazelwood mine fire disaster: Hazelwood (Penguin Random House,  2020; finalist in the Walkley Book Awards) and The Coal Face (Penguin, 2015, winner of the Oral History Victoria Education Innovation Award). He has also written a humorous travel memoir, Mörön to Mörön: Two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure (Allen & Unwin, 2013). He is the editor of Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa (Bridget Williams Books, 2020).
As a freelancer, Tom has written for The Big Issue, Crikey, Red Cross Australia, the Foundation for Young Australians, the Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, New Matilda, The Lifted Brow, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Cordite Poetry Journal and the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Habitat magazine. Tom has a PhD in Literary Journalism from Monash University, and currently teaches creative writing at Massey University, Palmerston North (New Zealand).