Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea, Wales. His debut novel, Submarine, was translated into twenty languages and made into an award-winning film by Richard Ayoade. His second novel, Wild Abandon, won the Encore Award. His third novel is The Adulterants. His stories have been published in McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, Esquire, The Baffler and The Guardian – and have been twice shortlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. His widely acclaimed first collection of poems, O Positive, was published by Faber & Faber in 2019. He lives in London. He is currently working on a family memoir, Children of Radium.