Gavin Weston

Gavin Weston was born in Belfast. He lives on the Ards Peninsula with an ancient dog and a cantankerous parrot. He is an artist, writer, teacher, and campaigner against child marriage, working with the charity, FORWARD. He is the author of the novel Harmattan and was a columnist for The Sunday Times for many years. Working as a writer-in-residence at HMP Magilligan, he met and became friends with Carlo Gébler and founded and edited the prison magazine Time In.