Email: anthony.mcgowan@stmarys.ac.uk
Biography
Anthony McGowan has written highly acclaimed and award-winning fiction and non-fiction for adults, teenagers, and younger children. His work includes the adult thrillers Stag Hunt and Mortal Coil, and the YA novels Hellbent, Henry Tumour, The Knife That Killed Me (filmed in 2014), Hello Darkness, and the four novellas that make up The Truth of Things, including Rook, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie medal in 2018, and Lark, which won the Carnegie in 2020. His latest books are How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog (2019), I Am the Minotaur (2021) How to Teach Economics to Your Dog (2022, with Rebecca Campbell), and Dogs of the Deadlands (2022).
Anthony has taught creative writing courses at London Metropolitan University, Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Faber Academy. He has a BA and M.Phil. from Manchester University, and received a full-time Arts Studentship at the Open University, from 1991-95, leading to a PhD on the history of the concept of beauty in literature and philosophy.