Christian Carter-Stephenson is an English writer of fiction, poetry and drama. He was born in the county of Essex in the United Kingdom and currently lives on the Isle of Wight. He has recently completed an MA course in Creative Writing at the University of Southampton and was a finalist in the second quarter of the 2015 Writers of the Future contest. He has had three books published by Bonito Books and a play published by New Theatre Publications. Other publication credits include stories or poetry in the following magazines: 'Aesthetica', 'AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review', 'Dark Horizons' (the former journal of the British Fantasy Society), 'Murky Depths', 'Möbius', 'The Willows', 'The Fifth Di...', 'Hadrosaur Tales', 'Youth Imagination', 'The Colored Lens' and 'Legend: Worlds of Possibility'. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and the Society of Book Writers and Illustrators. He started the BACK OF THE BOOKSHELF podcast to bring classic short stories he has read and loved, but aren't particularly well known, to a wider audience.