Hi, I’m Iain. I work in higher education, but the rest of the time I am:
✍️ a writer (over 30 short stories sold, novel published, shortlisted for Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger, second place in 2020 Costa Short Story Award, Northern Writers Award winner, represented by the Liverpool Literary Agency)
👨🎓a creative Writing PhD student, part-time practice-based (researching narrative representations of voluntarily missing people in fiction).
🦭a marine mammal medic with British Divers Marine Life Rescue, assisting marine mammals and other species in need of help.
🐋 a senior volunteer with Captain Paul Watson Foundation UK (formerly Sea Shepherd UK), and national campaign coordinator for the Coastal Debris Campaign in the UK. We are a UK marine conservation charity on a mission to end the destruction of habitats and the illegal killing of marine wildlife around the UK’s coastline and across the ocean.
💙🌊Always the sea.