About
After graduating in fine arts from Newcastle University, I travelled to Indonesia, where I undertook research at Pattimura University into sculptural traditions in the Tanimbar islands (see the link here). My experience in Indonesia not only eventually led to my first novel, Cargo Fever, but also contributed to a growing fascination with anthropology. On my return to the UK, I studied for an MA in anthropology at Durham University.
The curious itinerary that I followed after my MA in anthropology is too complicated to go into here, but it was in part thanks to my anthropological interests and in part thanks to a growing interest in forms of Buddhist practice that I eventually found my way to philosophy. I took a PhD in philosophy at Staffordshire University, during which time the first novel was published, whilst also working in Birmingham was a writer, teacher and workshop leader.
These days, I live and teach in Leicester, where I am a lecturer at De Montfort University, and I work on both fiction and philosophy.
About this site.
This site is made with textpattern. The little images were made by Tomikichiro Tokuriki in the 1930s, and appear in Paul Reps’ Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, and the book can be bought from Tuttle Publishing.
