NP Cunniffe was born in County Roscommon, Ireland, surrounded by dark forests, fairy hills and deep, mysterious lakes. He won a scholarship to the Winchester Writers’ Festival in 2017 and was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award in 2020. When the pandemic hit, he self-published a novelette, The Wake: An Irish Ghost Story, in August 2020, selling over 850 copies on his own. He holds an MA in Writing the Modern World from the University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich.