Tristan Hughes is a novelist and short story writer. He was born in Atikokan in northern Ontario and brought up on the Welsh island of Ynys Mon. He was educated at Ysgol David Hughes, and went on to study literature at the universities of York and Edinburgh, and King’s College, Cambridge, where he completed a PhD on Herman Melville’s South Sea writings. He is the author of four novels, Send My Cold Bones Home, Revenant, Eye Lake and Hummingbird – which won the Edward Stanford Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place and the Wales Book of Year People’s Choice Award – as well as two collections of linked short stories, The Tower and Shattercone.  His short fiction has appeared in various journals, including Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and New Welsh Review.  He is a winner of the Rhys Davies short story prize and an O. Henry Prize.  He is currently a Reader in Creative Writing at Cardiff University.