caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date period image article_title name occupation
paul haines with karen miller in 2007 05 march 2012 victoria , australia new zealand new zealand 08 june 1970 1999 to 2012 paul haines and karen miller.jpg paul haines -lrb- fiction writer -rrb-
 paul haines writer
paul haines -lrb- fiction writer -rrb-

paul haines -lrb- 8 june 1970 -- 5 march 2012 -rrb- was an award-winning new zealand-born horror and speculative fiction writer .
he lived in melbourne with his wife and daughter .
raised in auckland , new zealand , haines moved to australia in the 1990s after completing a university degree in otago .
he attended the inaugural clarion south writers workshop in 2004 and was a member of the supernova writers group .
haines had more than thirty short stories published in australia , north america , and greece .
in 2007 , he volunteered as a mentor for the australian horror writers association .
haines won the australian ditmar award three times -lrb- best new talent in 2005 , and best novella/novelette for `` the last days of kali yuga '' -lrb- 2005 -rrb- and `` the devil in mr pussy -lrb- or how i found god inside my wife -rrb- '' -lrb- 2007 -rrb- -rrb- .
he won the 2004 aurealis award -lrb- horror short story -rrb- for `` the last days of kali yuga '' and was nominated for the pushcart prize in 2003 and 2004 .
several of his short stories received honourable mentions in the annual year 's best fantasy and horror anthologies , ed .
ellen datlow , gavin grant , and kelly link -lrb- st. martins -rrb- .
haines ' first short story collection `` doorways for the dispossessed '' was published by prime books in 2006 .
it won the new zealand 2008 sir julius vogel award for best collection and was nominated for the 2007 australian ditmar for best collection .
in 2007 haines was diagnosed with cancer .
the anthology `` scary food : a compendium of gastronomic atrocity '' -lrb- ed .
cat sparks , agog !
press , 2008 -rrb- was put together as part of a donation drive to raise funds to partially cover the cost of haines ' medical treatment .
authors represented include kaaron warren , margo lanagan , robert hood , richard harland , paul haines , terry dowling , stephen dedman , deborah biancotti , lee battersby , lucy sussex , gillian polack , lourdes ndaira and anna tambour .
haines died in march 2012 .
