Shane was born in 1974, raised in southern Sydney, and now lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela. He is a Ditmar award-winning writer and editor, a graduate of the Clarion South writers workshop, and a member of the US and Australian Horror Writers Associations.

With Angela Challis, Shane co-founded Brimstone Press and Shadowed Realms online magazine, and has since co-edited the anthologies Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006 edition, Shadow Box, and Robots & Time. He is the founder and managing editor of HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Web Log and a former columnist for Hellnotes.

His fiction, editing, and critical/review work has been nominated for every Australian speculative fiction genre award (including the Ditmars, Aurealis Awards, Australian Shadows Award, and Tin Ducks). In 2007, Shane was a judge for the Australian Shadows Award and Convenor of the Aurealis Award Horror panel.

Shane has published more than fifty short stories in Australia, USA, and Europe, and his work has been translated into Spanish, Polish, and French. His short fiction credits include Dark Wisdom, Nowa Fantastyka, Shadowed Realms, Aurealis, Apex Digest, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Borderlands, Ticonderoga Online, Horror Literature Quarterly and many more.

Many of his stories are showcased in Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, a fully illustrated (by Andrew J McKiernan) dark flash fiction collection, and In the Heart of Midnight, a collection of dark fantasy and desolation (both forthcoming).

Aside from writing, Shane has been a qualified martial arts instructor, with black belts in Iga-Ryu Ninjutsu and Sports Chanbara. He was also the New South Wales and Australian Chanbara Grand Champion. The name Jiraiya was bestowed upon him in his youth by Ninjutsu Grand Master, Kazuo Crando Saito.