TADE THOMPSON lives and works in the South of England. He is the author of The Murders of Molly Southbourne, Rosewater, The Rosewater Insurrection and Making Wolf, as well as the short stories "The Apologists", "Yard Dog", "Kassem's Way" and other works. He is a multiple winner of the Nommo Award, winner of the Golden Tentacle award at the Kitsches, a John W. Campbell Award finalist, a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and a nominee for both the British Fantasy Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award. His background is in medicine, psychiatry and social anthropology. His hobbies include jazz, visual arts, martial arts, comics and pretending he will ever finish his TBR stack.