This is me. I’m a novelist, short-story writer, and lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln. I’m not as austere as the photograph implies, but I have heaps of smile lines and I’m horrifically vain.

My early days: I was born in Dover, on the chalky south coast of England, to a Grenadian/Indian mother and English/Turkish father and, sometime later, did the majority of my growing up in and around Toronto. Since then, I’ve spent time studying and/or struggling to survive in Canada, the US, Japan, France and Switzerland. In the end, I landed back in the UK, where I’m writing this.

I live with my wife, the set designer, Machiko Weston, whose website, as of this writing, has said “Coming soon…” for eight years and reveals nothing because she insists—insists—on fueling her life with nothing but pure skill and word-of-mouth. The rest of us can only dream.

Everything above influences my writing, notably a muddled hybridity, whether of personhood or literary form. My fiction has been heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour, and appeared in the Stinging Fly, the Normal School, Litro Magazine, the New Orleans Review, the Raleigh Review, and elsewhere. My novels for children and young adults have won awards in Canada, the US, and Germany, and inlcude Zorgamazoo, Dust City, Blues for Zoey, and others.

Find me (very occasionally) on Threads, Instagram,  X, and Goodreads.

For rights inquires, please contact my literary agency, Westwood Creative Artists.