DW Wilson is the author of Once You Break a Knuckle (Hamish Hamilton, 2011) and Ballistics (Bloomsbury, 2013). His fiction and essays have appeared in literary journals on both sides of the Atlantic, including Grain, Prairie Fire, Prospect and Granta, and in 2011 he became the youngest-ever winner of the BBC’s National Short Story Award for ‘The Dead Roads’. He teaches about creative writing and video games (separately) on the West Coast of Canada.