 Baker has appeared at the Sydney, Byron Bay, and Margaret River writers' festivals and the Sunshine Coast's Reality Bites Festival, and has conducted writing workshops at the Hunter, Sydney and Northern Rivers Writers Centres.He has worked in the media and surfing magazines for 25 years and has surfed and travelled throughout Australia, Indonesia, Hawaii, Central and South America, North America, Europe, Fiji, Tahiti, and Sri Lanka.He lives in Currumbin, Queensland, with his wife and two children, and is currently working on a surfing-based novel.