Shaun Wilson was born in 1980 and raised in Wigton, Cumbria. In 2021, an early draft of Malc's Boy won a Northern Writers’ Award, with an excerpt published by Granta in 2024. His work featured in Kit de Waal’s working-class anthology Common People (Unbound, 2019), leading the acclaimed Kerry Hudson to tip him for 'big things’ in the Observer. He has featured at various book festivals, on BBC Radio, and recently completed a placement at Semiotext(e). He holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Northumbria University and has worked as an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Universities of Northumbria and Teesside.