David Gaffney comes from Cleator Moor in West Cumbria and now lives in Manchester. He is the author of Sawn Off Tales (2006), Aromabingo (2007), Never Never (2008), Buildings Crying Out, a story using lost cat posters (Lancaster litfest 2009), 23 Stops To Hull a set of short stories about every junction on the M62 (Humber Mouth festival 2009) Rivers Take Them a set of short operas with composer Ailis Ni Riain (BBC Radio Three 2008.) Destroy PowerPoint, stories in PowerPoint format for Edinburgh Festival in August 2009, the Poole Confessions stories told in a mobile confessional box (Poole Literature festival 2010) and The Half Life of Songs, 2010.