Writing career

From 1998 to 2002, Dapin was editor and then editor-in-chief of Ralph magazine. He has written for a variety of publications including The Australian Financial Review

The Australian Financial Review

The Australian Financial Review is a leading business and finance newspaper in Australia.Fairfax Media publishes it in a compact format six days a week, Monday to Saturday....

, Meanjin

Meanjin

Meanjin is an Australian literary journal. The name - pronounced Mee-AN-jin - is derived from an Aboriginal word for the land where the city Brisbane is located.It was founded in December 1940, in Brisbane, by Clem Christesen...

and Good Weekend. He has a Bachelor of Social Science degree and a Masters in Journalism from UTS

University of Technology, Sydney

The University of Technology Sydney is a university in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university was founded in its current form in 1981, although its origins trace back to the 1870s. UTS is notable for its central location as the only university with its main campuses within the Sydney CBD...

 and has taught journalism courses at the University of Sydney

University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

 and Macleay College.

Published works

• Sex & money (Allen & Unwin, 2004) ISBN 1741143209
• Fridge magnets are bastards (HarperCollins, 2007) ISBN 9780732285210
• Strange country (Pan Macmillan Australia, 2008) ISBN 9781405038720
• King of the Cross (Macmillan, 2009) ISBN 9781405039628

Awards

Dapin won the 2010 Ned Kelly Award

Ned Kelly Awards

The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres...

best first fiction award for his novel King of the Cross.