Conrad Williams is the author of two previous novels, Head Injuries and London Revenant, as well as the novellas Nearly People, Game, The Scalding Rooms and Rain, and a collection of his short fiction, Use Once, Then Destroy.
Born in 1969, he sold his first short story at the age of eighteen and has gone on to sell over 80 more to a variety of small presses, professional magazines and critically acclaimed anthologies.
In 1993 he won the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer. His work has since been shortlisted for awards by the British Fantasy Society and the International Horror Guild, the latter proclaiming The Unblemished as Best Novel.
He is married to the writer Rhonda Carrier and they live with their three sons and a monster Maine Coon cat in Manchester, where Conrad teaches creative writing at a local university.