Douglas Colston holds a BA, a BSc and a post-graduate Psychology qualification.
Decades ago, he garnering some lyric and song writing credits playing in Australian
Ska bands - and while not playing Ska, at that time he was studying and working in
the public sector. Later, he transitioned into Counselling as a vocation and now he is
also pursuing a PhD enrolment (focused on the Creative Nonfiction genre). His poetry,
fiction and nonfiction has been published online and in print, in addition to appearing
in a number of anthologies and gaining praise such as '... eliciting a strange sense of
awe ... [t]his is ground breaking and gorgeous ... writing and deserves to be read
widely' (The Editors, "POETiCA REViEW").