Jesse Fink was born in London, England, in 1973 and raised and educated in Sydney, Australia, by his Australian parents.

Fink worked for five years as a senior editor of non-fiction for HarperCollins Publishers Australia, being responsible for a number of bestselling or award-winning books such as "John Curtin: A Life" by David Day, "The Carpet Wars" by Christopher Kremmer, "The World From Italy" by George Negus and "Frank Lowy: Pushing The Limits" by Jill Margo, and then branched out into print journalism.

As deputy editor of Inside Sport magazine, Australia’s version of Sports Illustrated, he was nominated for Coverage of Sport (All Media) in the country’s most prestigious journalism prize, the Walkley Awards. In addition, Fink won or was commended for several Australian Sports Commission Media Awards and had his feature writing collected in two anthologies, The Best Australian Sports Writing 2004 (Garrie Hutchinson, Black Inc. Books, 2004) and This Sporting Year (Garrie Hutchinson, Hardie Grant Books, 2006).

In 2007 Fink wrote his first book, the critically acclaimed "15 Days in June: How Australia Became a Football Nation," and took his “Half-Time Orange” football (soccer) column from Fox Sports Australia to the SBS TV network.

He would go on to become SBS’s leading football writer in terms of readership, numbers of comments and “hits,” amassing over 500 columns.

During that period he also produced columns for The Roar, SBS Sport and Tribal Football in Australia, ESPN STAR Sports in Singapore, Sportingbet in the United Kingdom, Asia Times Online in Thailand, Sunday Guardian in India, Al Jazeera in Qatar and other outlets. Between 2011 and 2013 he contributed a widely read weekly sports column to Fox Sports Asia and broke the Worawi Makudi Nong Chok land-ownership story, which was covered by the BBC and The Wall Street Journal and resulted in a FIFA ethics committee investigation in Zurich.

Outside of column writing, Fink has contributed features to publications such as The Australian Women’s Weekly, Inside Sport, Sport & Style, Dazed & Confused, Jakarta Globe, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan Netherlands, Cosmopolitan Australia, Cosmopolitan Croatia, Virgin Australia Voyeur, BRW, France Football, Grazia, Rolling Stone India, Golf Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph (Sunday Style), The Sunday Mail, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, Sunday Canberra Times, The Sun Herald (Sunday Life), The Herald Sun and The Sunday Age. He has also written for websites YourTango (USA), BroBible (USA), News.com.au (Australia), Business Spectator (Australia) and Live4.com.au (Australia).

In 2012 Fink released his second book, a memoir titled "Laid Bare: One Man’s Story of Sex, Love and Other Disorders."

His third book, "The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC," was published in November 2013 by Random House Australia and broke a story that had been untold for nearly 40 years: that the band had come close to sacking Bon Scott. The story was picked up by media outlets around the world. AC/DC bassist Mark Evans hailed The Youngs as “the best book I’ve ever read about AC/DC”.

The Youngs will be published by St Martin’s Press in USA/Canada, Black & White Publishing in the United Kingdom and Paidós in Argentina in 2014. It will be published by Hannibal Verlag in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 2015.

Fink is an ambassador for beyondblue, Australia’s national depression and anxiety initiative. He lectures in journalism at Macleay College in Sydney and regularly writes for Australia’s most read weekend magazine, Sunday Style.

He lives in Sydney with his daughter and is represented by Scott Miller at Trident Media Group, New York.