Ashley Hickson-Lovence is a novelist, university lecturer and former school teacher with a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Ashley’s debut novel The 392 was published by OWN IT! in 2019. His second novel Your Show, published by Faber in 2022, was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards. His third book Wild East, a young adult novel-in-verse, was published by Penguin in 2024. He grew up in London but now lives in Norwich.