Mick Jackson
Mick Jackson was born in Great Harwood, Lancashire in 1960 and has a degree in Theatre Studies from Dartington College of Arts. He is a graduate of the Creative Writing course at the University of East Anglia under the tutelage of Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. On leaving college he formed a band and for the next seven years worked as the singer/songwriter with various incarnations of The Screaming Abdabs and The Dinner Ladies. This resulted in the release of four records and appearances at festivals such as Glastonbury and Reading, as well as national radio sessions for DJs. In 1990 Jackson gave up his life of music and performance to concentrate on writing fiction. He has researched and directed a short documentary for Westcountry TV about people who live under pylons called The Pylon People and wrote and directed a short drama called Pieces of the Moon for Anglia TV/Eastern Arts. He is the author of The Underground Man (1997) which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for fiction. He is also the author of Five Boys (2001) and Ten Sorry Tales (2005), a collection of short stories.
