Jon Mycroft is a short story writer from Leamington Spa. He won the Alistair Wisker Short Story Award three years in a row, has been published in a number of anthologies and literary magazines, and has had his poetry featured on a bus. He holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham in creative writing and short story pedagogy.

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Jon has taught creative writing at Ruskin College Oxford, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Warwick. These days, he’s a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, where his academic interests include short fiction, post-war dystopian fiction, the history of games, modernist art, and digital philosophies.

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In 2016, he founded Milverton Writers, an international group of poets and fiction writers.