About

Adam O’Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982. He read English at Oxford and, after working briefly in publishing, became Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first collection of poems, In the Flesh, won a Somerset Maugham Award. His second, A Herring Famine, was followed by the collection of stories The Burning Ground and his debut novel The Falling Thread. He lives in South Manchester with his wife and two children and teaches at the Manchester Writing School, where he is Reader in Contemporary Poetry and Fiction