Steven Chatterton is an author, screenwriter, and multi-award-winning film director who grew up working class in The Black Country – Tolkien’s inspiration for Mordor. He writes stories where the uncanny breaks into the everyday, sparked by the landscape of his youth where the barely-buried bones of its industrial heritage rest uneasily atop something much… older.

After 4 years in Japan, his directing school was working as a stand-in/double under Scorsese and Nolan. His film Adnan became an internationally published picture book (Frances Lincoln/Quarto), while his screenplays have made European development programmes and the Hollywood Black List.

A committed advocate of social mobility, he’s mentored children for many years and runs a non-profit providing creative workshops. He’s spoken at multiple book and film festivals, but nothing beats inspiring kids in a classroom.

With a distinction from Bath Spa’s MA in Writing for Young People, he’s just completed his debut upper-MG novel. Supernatural horror and fantasy are his jam. He’s utterly bonkers about dogs.