Tristan Hughes was born in Atikokan, Canada and brought up around Llangoed, Ynys Mon where he currently lives.

He completed a PhD thesis on Pacific and American literature from King's College, Cambridge and won the Rhys Davies Short Story Award.

Tristan's third novel Revenant was published by Picador in May 2008.

Praise for Tristan Hughes:

‘Hughes is a very good writer, if “good writing” has to do with precision, eloquence, beauty and passionately held belief’
Times Literary Supplement

‘Pastoral, flinty and fierce’
Independent