Ross Raisin is the author of three novels: A Natural, Waterline and God’s Own Country. His work has won and been shortlisted for over ten literary awards. He won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award in 2009, and in 2013 was named on Granta’s once a decade Best of Young British Novelists list. In 2018 he was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Society of Literature.

He has written short stories for Granta, Prospect, the Sunday Times, Esquire, BBC Radio 3 and 4, among others, and in 2018 published a book for the Read This series, on the practice of fiction writing: Read This if you Want to be a Great Writer. Ross teaches creative writing at Goldsmiths University and as part of the Guardian Masterclass programme and is a writer-in-residence for the education charity First Story. Find more on Ross, his books and teaching here: www.rossraisin.com