Chris Barkley was appointed Writer in Residence by the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2022. He has won the Oxford University Kellogg Writing Competition, as well as the Bedford International Writing Prize. He has been shortlisted for the Cambridge Short Story Prize and has had prose published in TSS, National Flash Fiction, Darling Axe, and the Writers of the Future 35th Anthology. The Man on the Endless Stair is his first novel. He lives in Edinburgh.

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