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William Bedford was born and grew up in the north of England. He left school at fifteen to work as a labourer on the east coast fishdocks, fairgrounds and farms before moving with his family to a remote USAF base in north Lincolnshire. At sixteen, under pressure from his family and to avoid national service, he joined the police as a cadet. At nineteen, after a serious nervous breakdown, he left Lincolnshire, and spent ten years working as a Lloyds Broker in the City of London. After another breakdown and hospitalisation, he turned to academic life, doing research and teaching, and eventually became a full-time writer. He is an award-winning poet, short-story writer, children’s novelist and novelist. His selected poems, Collecting Bottle Tops, and selected short stories and non-fiction, None of the Cadillacs Was Pink, were both published in 2009. In 2014, he won First Prize in the London Magazine International Poetry Competition. His collection of poems, The Fen Dancing, was published in 2014. A new collection, The Bread Horse, is being published in September 2015.
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