Robert Graham teaches Creative Writing up to PhD level at Liverpool John Moores University, and for many years was on the staff at Manchester Metropolitan University. His publications include a novel, Holy Joe (Troubador, 2006); two short story collections, The Only Living Boy (Salt, 2009) and When You Were A Mod, I Was A Rocker (Like This Press, 2013); a novella, A Man Walks Into A Kitchen (Salt, 2011); and three Creative Writing textbooks: Everything You Want To Know About Creative Writing (But Knowing Isn't Everything) (Bloomsbury, 2009); The Road to Somewhere: A Creative Writing Companion 2nd edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); How To Write A Short Story (And Think About It) 2nd edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).