Yannick Hill is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. He learned to swim in Devon’s smugglers’ coves, cycled with his little sister around Rome’s Circus Maximus as a teenager, won a snow shovel in a game of rock, paper, scissors in Japan’s bear country, navigated the Thames in a narrowboat, took up skateboarding in Southend-on-Sea, fell off his bike in Galway City and recently fell for a girl on a Paris dance floor (unrequited). He’s now back living in London, writing the books that he wants to read.