Stephen Carver is a writer, editor and academic. For sixteen years he taught literature and creative writing at the University of East Anglia (where he also took his doctorate), spending three years in Japan as an associate-professor of English at the University of Fukui. He is presently Head of Online Courses at the Unthank School of Writing, the Senior Editor at Green Door Design for Publishing, and a reader for The Literary Consultancy. He is the biographer of the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, and has published extensively on gothic film and fiction. His short fiction has appeared in Not-Not, Cascando, Birdsuit and Veto, and he also blogs on literature and creative writing. He lives in Norfolk with his wife and son, and far too many books and motorcycles.