Craig Gamble has been employed in bookselling and publishing for all of his working life. He has worked for bookshops large and small, publishing houses in New Zealand and Australia, and ran a sales agency between 1994 and 2000.

In 2014, Craig completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New Zealand. His MA manuscript, a YA novel, won the Adam Prize for the best manuscript written during that year. Past recipients of the prize include Eleanor Catton and Ashleigh Young. Craig has been published in anthologies including Monsters In the Garden (VUP) edited by David Larsen and Elizabeth Knox.

Craig lives with his family in Wellington, and works at Victoria University Press. His latest novel, Junkers, is currently on submission with publishers.