Cynan Jones was born in 1975 near Aberaeron, Wales, where he now lives and works.

He is the author of five novels, The Long Dry, Everything I Found on the Beach, Bird, Blood, Snow, The Dig and Cove.

He has been longlisted and shortlisted for numerous prizes and won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award 2007, a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014, the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015 and the BBC National Short Story Award 2017.

His short fiction has been published in anthologies and publications including Granta magazine and the New Yorker.

He was elected a Fellow of the RSL in 2019.