Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast. The author of sixteen previous works of fiction and non-fiction, he was co-writer of the screenplay of the film Good Vibrations. Patterson wrote and narrated the BBC podcast The Northern Bank Job (2021), and more recently The Brighton Bomb, also for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast.
