Matthew Francis

Matthew Francis is Professor of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. He grew up in Hampshire, Cheshire, and Surrey in the UK and read English at Magdalene College, Cambridge University. He spent eleven years working in the computer industry, mostly as an author of software manuals. He has since written a range of fiction, short stories and poetry. His poetry and fiction have been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, the Ted Hughes Award and the Wales Book of the Year Award, and in 2004 he...See more

Matthew Francis is Professor of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. He grew up in Hampshire, Cheshire, and Surrey in the UK and read English at Magdalene College, Cambridge University. He spent eleven years working in the computer industry, mostly as an author of software manuals. He has since written a range of fiction, short stories and poetry. His poetry and fiction have been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, the Ted Hughes Award and the Wales Book of the Year Award, and in 2004 he was chosen as one of the Next Generation poets. Matthew lives with this wife in Aberystwyth, Wales where he enjoys playing chess, cooking and playing the ukulele. See less