Thomas Emson
Thomas Emson (born 1966) is a novelist and short story writer in both English and Welsh.
Emson was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, and brought up on Anglesey. He now lives in Whitstable, Kent, England. He went to college in Bangor to do a degree in Communication but took a creative writing module in his third year which got him started as a writer. His first language is Welsh.
After graduating, he took job as a reporter with the local newspaper group. His first novel was published in 1996 – it was a Welsh-language horror story. Subsequently there have been another three novels and two collections of stories in Welsh before his first English language novel: Maneater, which was published on 1 April 2008 by Snowbooks.[1] Thomas Emson's second book, Skarlet, is about vampires in London and was published on 2 March 2009.
Thomas Emson states that currently he "lives in Kent with a wonderful woman, an elderly cat, an adopted dog and two house rabbits. "[2]
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