Miles Craven is the penname of Dr Mike Miles, an exiled Yorkshireman living in North Wales. He completed a PhD in eighteenth-century legal history in 1982, and in the same year gained a postgraduate teaching certificate at Wolverhampton University. He has taught in further education colleges and universities for over thirty years, teaching more subjects than he cares to remember but specialising in History, English Literature and, most recently, Creative Writing. When he's not writing or thinking creatively he likes to spend time with his family, listen to Renaissance/Baroque music and stroke the dogs - not necessarily in that order.