Tiffany Murray’s latest novel is Diamond Star Halo (Portobello Books, January 2010) has been short-listed for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2010. Her first, Happy Accidents (HarperPerennial, 2005), was published to excellent reviews and also short-listed for this prize.

She is a graduate of UEA’s M.A. fiction programme and is currently Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The University of Glamorgan. Tiffany’s short fiction has appeared in Pretext, Mslexia, and New Welsh Review. She has worked as an editor (Pretext 8 with Helon Habila), and conducts writing courses for The Taliesen Trust, The Arvon Foundation and www.writebythesea.com

Tiffany’s writing has also appeared in the Times, the Independent and the Observer.

She lived and worked in New York for many years but currently lives in Herefordshire.