Ashley Hickson-Lovence

Ashley Hickson-Lovence is a novelist, poet, literary critic, and Lecturer of Creative Writing. Wild East is his first YA verse-novel, and was partly inspired by his time as a secondary school English teacher, his own move from London to Norwich, and tutoring a group of asylum seekers at an Arvon retreat. Wild East also weaves in Ashley's love of British hip hop. Ashley has also written two adult novels, The 392 , and Your Show , which was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and shortlisted...See more

Ashley Hickson-Lovence is a novelist, poet, literary critic, and Lecturer of Creative Writing. Wild East is his first YA verse-novel, and was partly inspired by his time as a secondary school English teacher, his own move from London to Norwich, and tutoring a group of asylum seekers at an Arvon retreat. Wild East also weaves in Ashley's love of British hip hop. Ashley has also written two adult novels, The 392 , and Your Show , which was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards. See less