Alex Pheby

Alex Pheby lives with his family in Scotland, and is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle. His second novel, Playthings, was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize, and his third novel, Lucia, was winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize. The books of the Cities of the Weft trilogy have been selected as a books of the year by the Guardian, the I, Tor.com, Waterstones and Locus, and were nominated for the Grand Prix De L'Imaginaire and the BSFA Awards.