Born in Loughborough, Simon Crump lived in Sheffield for forty years and now lives in Howarth. He is an internationally exhibited artist and the author of experimental fiction, including the composite novels My Elvis Blackout and Neverland, reissued by Galley Beggar Press as Galley Beggar Classics in 2012 and 2014. Other books include short story collection Monkey’s Birthday, the novel Twilight Time, and the historical non-fiction work They Call it U-Boat Hotel, published in 2002 by Grizedale Books.
In 2017, he received a suspended prison sentence for environmental activism around the Sheffield street tree campaign. He coauthored a collection of eyewitness accounts of the campaign with Calvin Payne, Persons Unknown: the Battle for Sheffield’s Street Trees, published by Wrecking Ball Press in 2022.
Simon's latest book, Post It Notes from Underground, will be published by Bluemoose Books in 2026.
