BIOGRAPHY

It started in the hills near Perth, where he was brought rather quietly and with little fanfare into the world. The farming area tucked in the south-west corner of Western Australia became forever his reference point, but even then the world seemed broad and large, with the fields of wheat stretching to the horizon. But the whole world could not simply have been a field of wheat. There had to be more. So, a foray in the big city, slaving through low-paid jobs, struggling and then succeeding, briefly, to make a sporting career in basketball, until succumbing reluctantly to academia.

The history graduate, bored and restless, heads off to see the world. He lands a part-time job with a daily paper in a small Canadian town, convinces major newspapers he's a player on the freelance travel writing scene and manages to sell a few articles. Travels some more, hitchhiking across America. Tries to write novels but no one is interested; not even him. Works on travel guide books, lands in Europe, settles in Germany, does the required tenure teaching English, and keeps trying to write a good book. Moves to Berlin and finally a story emerges that makes all the words fall into place.

Photograph by Che Chapman.

The Bicycle Teacher was published in January 2006. His follow up novel Hunter came out in early 2009. Campbell is also the author of A Lord's Revenge, a novella for English language learners published by Compact Verlag while his articles have graced the pages of newspapers and magazines across the globe. He lives near the harbour in Hamburg and sometimes lectures at the University of Hamburg.

Publication Credits

Australian Reader - short story The Cleaner

FAWWA 2008 Anthology Lines in the Sand - short story 8:26 Mill Point Road Exit

The Sunday Telegraph, London - Berlin, Potsdam, Innsbruck

The Globe and Mail, Toronto

The West Australian, Perth

The Courier Mail, Brisbane

Travel Intelligence, London - Travel Articles

Here or There, London - Travel Stories

Itchy Traveller, Singapore - Verona

The Local, Germany - Hamburg, Australian Football, Sexy St Pauli, Sylt, Harz Mountains, Goslar

Decanter Magazine - Mosel

Living Now Magazine - Digital Enlightenment

Spotlight - short stories: The Mix-up (January 2009), Connectivity (November 2009)

Dalango - scripts for English learning videos

Adventure Magazine

Owners Perspective Magazine

BeE Magazine

European Journal -  Auschwitz

Backpackers Travel Magazine - South Dakota

Scuba Diver Australasia - Ningaloo Reef

Rough Guides for USA, Europe and Germany

Expedia - hotel reviews and map content

Road Junky - Guide to Germany

Italy from a Backpack - short story Guidebook as Gospel

The Louisiana Weekly, New Orleans

The Nelson Daily News, Nelson, Canada

Music

A Cast of Millions - Vegas 

Business Stuff

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Campbell Jefferys

Hopfen Strasse 8

20359 Hamburg

Germany

+49 40 3344 2486

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