Ian Skewis was born in Scotland in 1970.He wrote articles for a local paper and had his first poems published at the age of 19. He trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and became an actor appearing on film and television and providing his voice for radio. He performed in numerous stage plays that toured internationally including Like Thunder which received a Fringe First Award in 2001.He is the author of several short stories including The Circular Memory Leviathan Borrowed Time (finalist in The Temporal Logbook international competition) and Inkling which was published in an anthology The Speculative Book in 2016.He lives and works in Glasgow.A Murder of Crows is his debut novel.