Will Elliott is an Australian literary horror fiction writer who lives in Brisbane, Queensland. His debut novel The Pilo Family Circus was published in Australia in 2006 after winning the inaugural ABC Fiction Award. The novel went on to win the Aurealis Award, the Australian Shadows Award, the Ditmar Award, the Sydney Morning Herald's "Best Young Novelist Award" for 2007 and the 'Premios Nocte' Best Foreign Book Award 2011. The Pilo Family Circus also short-listed for the 2007 International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel. The Pilo Family Circus has been picked up for North American distribution by Victoria Blake's new publishing company, Underland Press and was scheduled to be one their debut novels in 2009. Elliott dropped out of a law degree at 20 when he developed schizophrenia. Although The Pilo Family Circus is about a young man struggling with a psychotic alter-ego when he dons clown face paint, Elliott has said the novel is not autobiographical. Elliott has written some short stories. His first published story "Ain't no ordinary ham" was reprinted in Best Australian Stories 2006, ed. Robert Drewe. 

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