Steve Beard was born in the M4 corridor in 1961 and first moved to London in 1983. He has lived in Herne Hill, Peckham, Brixton, Vauxhall, Islington and Shadwell. His postgraduate years were spent wandering the stacks at Cambridge University library where he was privileged to learn far too much about English literature. For most of the late 1980s and 1990s he worked as a style journalist on magazines like i-D, The Face and Arena. In 1998 he moved to Hove where he met Jeff Noon.

Biography provided by the author, September 2006.