Jeremy Aitken has worked at many things, but writing has always been the quiet force shaping his life. He has taught Academic English at UNSW in Sydney, Human Services at the Australian College of Applied Professions, and has also taught at Taylors College Sydney, which provides pathway programs for students entering the University of Sydney. Across these teaching roles, he has shared his love of language, narrative, and the complexities of the human condition. Click on the links below to read some of his articles and past writing.

Beyond academia, his working life has been strikingly diverse: he has served as a COVID tester during the pandemic, worked as a first aid officer for MMA events, and even spent time as a meat processor for Primo Meat Products, experiences that inform the depth, grit, and grounded realism of his writing.

His published works Crystal Street and The Lotus Eater draw on a semi-autobiographical lens, blending lived experience with documentary realism. His novel The Bike, now available for purchase, was shortlisted for the Vogel/Australian Writing Award. Seen as his most intimate and ambitious project, The Bike captures the poetry of survival: addiction, fractured identity, and the interior worlds of those without a voice. It seeks to honour lives often overlooked, giving them narrative space and emotional dignity.

A lover of rainforests and renewal, Jeremy left Sydney to live in a small cottage deep in the World Heritage–listed Kuranda rainforest of Far North Queensland. There he rebuilt his life through recovery, writing, and radical change. His upcoming novel Melted explores transformation, identity, redemption, renewal, and love, continuing his commitment to stories shaped by courage, honesty, and reinvention.