Russell Celyn Jones is a novelist, feature writer and critic. He was raised in South Wales and now lives in London. He has taught at universities in the USA and South Africa, at the Universities of East Anglia and Warwick, and is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was a Man Booker prize judge in 2002.

His novels are: Soldiers and Innocents (1990), winner of the David Higham Prize for Fiction; Small Times (1992); An Interference of Light (1995); The Eros Hunter (1998); Surface Tension (2001); Ten Seconds From The Sun (2005), winner of the Weishanhu Prize (China); and The Ninth Wave (2009). He has also published short fiction in a number of anthologies published by Penguin and Bloomsbury, et al.