Ross Raisin

Ross Raisin is the author of four novels: A Hunger (2022), A Natural (2017), Waterline (2011) and God’s Own Country (2008). His work has won and been shortlisted for over a dozen literary awards, including winning the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the BBC National Short Story Award in 2024. In 2013, he was named on Granta’s once-a-decade Best of Young British Novelists list. In 2018 he was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Society of Literature.

In 2018, Ross published a book for the Read This series, on the practice of fiction writing. As a tutor, he worked for the Guardian Masterclass programme, teaching a long-running 6-week fiction course; he teaches at the University of Leeds, for the education charity First Story and also works as a writing mentor to emerging writers.