Tristan Hughes was born in northern Ontario and brought up on the Welsh island of Ynys Môn. He is the author of three novels, Eye Lake (Picador, 2011), Revenant (Picador, 2008), and Send My Cold Bones Home (Parthian Books, 2006), as well as a collection of short stories, The Tower (Parthian Books, 2003). He is a winner of the Rhys Davies Short Story Award and is currently a senior lecturer in creative writing at Cardiff University.