As a multiple Ditmar Award-winning writer and editor, founder of several influential publications, and Vice President of the Australian Horror Writers Association, Shane is a leader within the Australian dark fiction community.

With Angela Challis, Shane co-founded Brimstone Press, Shadowed Realms, and Black: Australian Dark Culture magazine. He has edited several anthologies including Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006 edition, Shadow Box, and Black Box. Shane is the founder and managing editor of HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Web Log and guest edited Midnight Echo Issue #2 (with Angela Challis).

His fiction, editing, and critical/review work has been nominated for every Australian speculative fiction genre award (the Ditmars, Aurealis Awards, Australian Shadows Award, and Tin Ducks). Shane has been a judge for the Australian Shadows Award (twice) and Convenor of the Aurealis Award Horror panel. Since 2009, he has been the Director of the Australian Shadows Award.

Shane has had more than sixty short stories published in Australia, USA, and Europe, and his work has been translated into Spanish, Polish, and French. Many of his stories are showcased in Shards, a dark flash fiction collection illustrated by Andrew J. McKiernan (Brimstone Press, 2009). Shane's affinity with very short stories through Shards, Shadow Box, Black Box, and Shadowed Realms has seen him acknowledged as a "master of flash fiction".

Shane's current projects include the Japanese fantasy novel Circle of Tears: The Adventures of Yamabushi Kaidan, which is an expansion of his Ditmar- and Aurealis Award-nominated novelette "Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon". He is also working on Ravana, the first book in a dark paranormal fiction series.

Although a prolific fiction writer, Shane is also well known for his genre non-fiction. He has been nominated for the William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review twice, and he has interviewed high-profile authors and celebrities such as Alice Cooper, Charlaine Harris, and Fiona Horne.

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.

Shane was raised in the southern suburbs of Sydney but now lives in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia with his partner, Angela.