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Ashley Hickson-Lovence

Ashley Hickson-Lovence is the author of the novels The 392Your Show and Wild East (overall winner of the East Anglian Book Awards 2024), and a poetry collection, Why I am Not a Bus Driver. He has a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia. His nominations include the Black Excellence Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature 2023 and the Carnegie Medal for Writing 2025. His new novel, About To Fall Apart, will be published by Faber in spring 2026. He grew up in London but now lives in Norwich.