Gavin Corbett is from Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of three novels: Innocence (2003), This Is the Way (2013) and Green Glowing Skull (2015). This Is the Way was named Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year in 2013. He has been writer-in-residence at Ireland’s two most prestigious universities, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. The Guardian newspaper has described him as “one of the most refreshing novelists writing today” and his writing as provoking “intellectual and aesthetic exhilaration that is seldom induced by contemporary Anglophone prose”.