John Kennedy

John Kennedy was born in Holmfirth and brought up in the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. His first brush with the writing world was when a poem of his was runner up in a competition at school and was published. John has done plenty to earn a crust over the years, including peeling bulbs in Holland and busking round Europe. But about twenty years ago he settled in the North East and took up a lecturing post. He’s had some sci fi published in anthologies and continues to put out the occasional short story in that genre, because he loves it too and hates the idea that writers must limit themselves to one world. For his crime fiction, he’s been shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger and the Exeter prize and longlisted for the Bath Novel prize. The Trauma Pool, published by Sharpe books, is his first novel.