Quentin S. Crisp was born in North Devon in 1972. He is the author of numerous novels and published collections of short stories. His work draws on western and Japanese traditions, spanning the supernatural, tanka poetry, and the I-novel.
His first collection of fiction, The Nightmare Exhibition, appeared in 2001, followed by Morbid Tales, acclaimed as a keystone of ‘the new weird’, Blue on Blue, and Hamster Dam, among others. His novella Shrike was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award in 2009.
Quentin studied Japanese at Durham University. After graduation, he taught English in Taiwan and studied the works of Higuchi Ichiyô at Kyoto University’s Faculty of Letters. In the late 2010s, he studied philosophy at Birkbeck College. He was a co-founder of and submissions editor for Chômu Press. He is also the subject of the experimental essay film, Duckweed (dir. Matthew Berka, 2024).
