Ian Watt is a retired publisher and editor. Born in New Zealand, he worked for several years in the UK before returning home to publish groundbreaking gay fiction by Peter Wells, Witi Ihimaera and Robert Leek in the 1990s. He has been on the board of ssbd since its inception and organises the annual Peter Wells Short Fiction Contest. Having edited the work of many other writers, he is now doing some writing of his own.
