James Ferron Anderson was born in Northern Ireland, where he worked as a weaver, glassblower and soldier. He moved with his family to England, studied at the University of East Anglia, and began to write. One of his first short stories, The Bog Menagerie, won the Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award in his native Ireland. He was an Escalator Award winner in England with I Still Miss Someone (now The Dangerous Edge of Things). He is a Writers' Centre Free Reads winner, and has had short stories broadcast on radio. His novel The River and The Sea won the inaugural Rethink New Novels Award, and was published soon after. He lives and works in Norwich, and visits British Columbia frequently.
