Jeff Noon was born in Manchester, England in 1957. He trained in the visual arts and drama and was active on the post-punk music scene before becoming a playwright, and then a novelist. His novels include Vurt (Arthur C. Clarke Award winner), Pollen, Automated Alice, Nymphomation, Needle in the Groove, Cobralingus, Falling Out Of Cars, Channel SK1N, Mappalujo (with Steve Beard) and a collection of stories called Pixel Juice. He has also won the John W. Campbell Award. His twitter fiction site @echovirus12 is a long-running online experiment in collaborative writing.
