Ian Cochrane is an Australian writer, photographer and freelance draughtsman.

He is a writer for the online newspaper BrooWaha, a member of the Australian Society of Authors, Writers Victoria, a member of the Blog Catalog community and a blogger on people, places and the human condition.

Wanderlust lured him to Europe, the Americas, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, while work has taken him to India, Africa, the Australian outback and the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

He now lives in his birthplace – Melbourne, Australia – after many years in nearby gold country.

Ian launched his first book –Indian Summers: Mumbai and Beyond, a collection of 13 tales on the paradox of modern India – to wild acclaim in 2011. Find it here as p-book or e-book, complete or by the story, or throughout Australia and New Zealand via Dennis Jones & Associates.

Ian is now working on Shadowland: a NZ Odyssey, a collection of stories planned to be published in 2014 and Man of Cards, a novel centred on an itinerant soul with each foot in disconnected worlds.

Read his published travel and food features.

The young Ian was smitten with the storytelling of his Scottish grandmother at her kitchen table.

‘My grandma was a short, stooped lady fond of telling stories in her Scottish brogue. In that blue, white and green MacDonald tartan pinny over a floral dress, she cooked up batches of potato scones, fried fruitcake and black pudding…’ Read the full story (.pdf 66kb)