Rob Magnuson Smith (MA 2010, David Higham Award) is the author of The Gravedigger and Scorper. His short fiction appears in Granta, Ploughshares, the Guardian, MoMA Magazine, the Australian Book Review and elsewhere. He has won the William Faulkner Award for the Novel and the Elizabeth Jolley Award for short fiction. His third novel Seaweed Rising is published by Sandstone Press and is available here. A lecturer at Exeter University, Rob lives in Cornwall. photo c. Amy Matthews