Will Napier

Will Napier was born in West Virginia to an American father and British mother. As a child he displayed a strong imagination. He remains easily distracted. The family moved several times before settling in Atlantic Beach, Florida in the late 80’s. Each move brought new experiences that Will continues to feed off when producing fiction. Frequent trips to the United Kingdom gave him a taste of life outside of America and made for an easy transition when, in 1999, he returned to Scotland with his wife Elaine.

During his time in Scotland Will completed two post-graduate degrees at the University of Glasgow. The first, a Master's in Creative Writing, helped him get a start in his first novel Summer of the Cicada. A portion of his second novel, Without Warning, is included in the thesis for his PhD. The thesis, titled The Haunted House of Memory in the Fiction of Stephen King, was the first successful PhD granted by a UK university concerning the works of America's best-selling patriarch of horror.

Will returned to Florida in 2007 and now lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida with his wife and four children. His fiction has appeared in Nerve Magazine, The Sunday Herald Magazine, Confluence, Arena, The Independent and The Knuckle End: An Anthology of Emerging Scottish Literary Talent. His first novel Summer of the Cicada was released by Jonathan Cape Publishing, a division of Random House UK, in March 2005. His second novel Without Warning was published by Jonathan Cape in February 2010.

He is at work on his third novel and is finishing a collection of short fiction. He teaches Creative Writing and Critical Theory.