Paul Curran is a novelist born in England, raised in Australia, and based in Japan. He returned to university as an adult to study writing, winning a short-story competition before earning a scholarship for a master's degree in the field. His debut novel, Left Hand (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2014), is an experimental, transgressive work told in fragmented, "amputated" prose; it drew praise from novelist Dennis Cooper, who championed Curran as one of avant-garde fiction's notable new voices. Curran is also the author of Generation Bloodbath. His writing sits within the small-press underground scene associated with Cooper's circle, favoring formal disruption and unflinching subject matter over conventional narrative structure.