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Wayne Grogan spent 16 years as a 'wharfie', working on the the wharves in Sydney and Newcastle. He then started writing fiction, obtained an arts degree, completed his first novel Junkie Pilgrim (2003), and worked as an antiquarian books dealer. In 1986, he had two feature articles published in the Newcastle Herald, one on heroin and one on methadone, and in 1987 the Sydney Morning Herald published an article by Grogan on methadone. Between 1988 and 1995 Grogan was a regular book reviewer for the Catholic Weekly.