Sam Thompson is a fantasy author who lives in Belfast, Antrim. He is the author of the novels Communion Town and Jott, the children’s novels Wolfstongue, The Fox’s Tower and The Forest Yet to Come, and the story collection Whirlwind Romance. His work has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Edge Hill Prize and a British Science Fiction Association Award, has been shortlisted for the Encore Prize, has won a Spark School Book Award and a Literacy Association of Ireland Biennial Book Award, and has been chosen as an Outstanding International Book by the US Board on Books for Young People.

His short fiction has appeared in Best British Short Stories 2019 and on BBC Radio 4, and in anthologies from Blackstaff Press, Unsung Stories and No Alibis Press, among other places.

He grew up in the south of England and now lives in Belfast, where he convenes the MA in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University.