Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and a story collection. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, Betty Trask Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award, and has twice been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham, where he edits The Letters Page, a literary journal in letters. He was born in Bermuda in 1976, grew up in Norfolk, and now lives in Nottingham.

Further reading

Read: In Winter the Sky in Granta

Review: This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You in the Guardian

Follow on Twitter: @Jon_McGregor

Discover more: Fourth Estate

Resource: Short story masterclass with Jon McGregor on Thresholds

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