Denis Edwards was born and bred in Miramar, Wellington. He is one of a family of six children. Educated at Holy Cross, Marist Miramar primary schools and later St Patrick's College, he went from school to the New Zealand Police, serving as a cadet and constable for three years.
Denis Edwards worked for nine years as a paramedic and dispatcher for the St John Ambulance Association before turning an interest in writing into a career.
He has written for almost every magazine and newspaper in New Zealand and for newspapers in Australia and England. He has been a finalist in the New Zealand Sports Journalist Awards and the Qantas Press Awards. Miramar Dog is his fourth book. Vows; priests and nuns speak out was also published by Penguin. Eden was published by Time Capsule Pubishing. Killer Moves is published by Scholastic.
He lives in Auckland's Mount Eden, close to the cafes and some distance from the Mount Eden Prison.
