Damien Walter is a writer of weird fiction, Guardian columnist and activist for reading and literacy. His stories have been published in genre and literary publications including the Hugo award winning Electric Velocipede and broadcast on BBC Radio. In 2005 he was shortlisted for the Douglas Coupland short fiction contest, and more recently won a grant from Arts Council England to work on his first novel. He writes the fortnightly Weird Things column for The Guardian and reviews for SFX magazine and IO9 among other venues. He is a graduate of the Clarion writers workshop at UC San Diego, and course director of the Certificate in Creative Writing at University of Leicester.
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