Graham Joyce

Graham Joyce was a British author of literary dark fantasy, winner of multiple British Fantasy Awards and the O. Henry Prize. He won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Some Kind of Fairy Tale (2013). Joyce was known for his liminal, psychologically sophisticated fiction that blurred the line between the real and the supernatural. Born in Keresley, Coventry in 1954, Joyce worked as a community and youth worker before becoming a full-time author. His novels including Dreamside, Dark Sister, The Tooth Fairy, Smoking Poppy, The Limits of Enchantment, and The Silent Land are celebrated for their rural English settings, quiet menace, and emotional depth. Some Kind of Fairy Tale, about a young woman who returns after twenty years having apparently not aged, was among his most praised works. Joyce was diagnosed with cancer in 2013 and died in 2014. He is remembered as one of the most important British fantasy authors of his generation.