Adam Foulds was born in 1974, took a Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia and now lives in South London. His first novel, The Truth About These Strange Times, was published in 2007 and his book-length narrative poem, The Broken Word, the following year. In 2008 he was named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and won The Costa Prize For Poetry.  The Broken Word also won a Somerset Maugham Award.  His new novel, The Quickening Maze, published in 2009, is currently longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.