RJ. Healey
Science fiction writer
Cat: Mia
Music: Ghostsoul (Breakbeat, dub & Ambient) 2008 to 2024
BIO: Robert J. Healey is a philosophical sci-fi and surrealist fiction writer, an occasional poet and, in a time long ago, an electronic music producer. He’s lived in and around Melbourne, Naarm, Australia for nearly twenty years, and was born in Perth, WA in the nether time of 1981.
Rob was first published in 2024 with his sci-fi short story Music of Orchard that was included in the At What Cost Anthology (of graduating PWE student works) through Clover Press RMIT University. His poem We Hold Each Other In appeared in Visible Inc magazine, online, also in 2024. In 2025 he wrote his first play, and in October of that year The Demigod of Preston Woolies appeared in Melbourne Fringe Festival. He’s currently in the obsessive weeds of several sci-fi novel manuscripts.
In 2024 he completed an Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT, with honours. And in a previous life, from about 2008 to 2024 he produced a catalogue of ambient music, cinematic breakbeats and electronic dub under the moniker Ghostsoul. Over those years, he performed live beat sets around Australia, mainly in little bars, a few dusty warehouses and some underground festivals – as well as composing and having sync’d his original music for TV, documentaries and computer games.
He started writing prose and poems and existential dread in 2019, after an ill-fated attempt at living a suburban life burned itself out and left him wondering, “Why does it hurt when people talk?” Possessing the sort of mind that prefers nights to people, he’s worked in event sound and lighting for close to twenty years, a space that leaves a version of the world where a person can sit on the outside and look in, across the passage of the world falling night and day in the great void of space and time.