I was born in 1968, educated in Swindon and then at a state boarding school for the visually impaired in Coventry and spent an abortive couple of months at Nottingham University before returning to Swindon where I work as a civil servant. Though I've been unable to get much published and much of what has been published is competition material, my work has appeared in Literary Review, New Statesman, The Spectator and on BBC local radio. My literary heroes include Samuel Beckett, Brian Aldiss, Cordwainer Smith and Lewis Carroll.