Peter Polites is a writer of Greek descent from Western Sydney. Down the Hume is his first novel. As part of the SWEATSHOP writers collective, Peter has written and performed pieces all over Australia. Alongside Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists Luke Carman and Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Polites wrote and performed #Three Jerks – a spoken-word piece about the Cronulla riots – to sellout crowds in Sydney and Melbourne. He has recently been commissioned to write a play about the migrant experience in Western Sydney for the Sydney Festival, to be performed in 2017.