Graduating from Keele University with a PhD in Pure Maths and a pocketful of prizes and commendations for short stories of an unsettling nature, Clark Nida's career went on to be nothing if not diverse. He has acted in pantomimes, engineered software, sold encyclopedias, been a mental health nurse, a police scientist and a senior academic. He has lived, worked and travelled widely overseas in Europe, Scandinavia, and the USA (which, as a resident alien living in five-star hotels, run-down motels and way-out alternative communities, he has seen more of than most Americans ever do). He now lives in Whitby, on the brow of Yorkshire's Jurassic Coast, with a virtual cat, a pet geode and a 350-year-old ghost of himself.
