Nyki Blatchley

Nyki Blatchley is a British author, poet, and freelance copywriter who graduated from Keele University in English and Greek and now lives just outside London. At various stages of his life, he's worked in bookselling, residential care for adults with learning disabilities, and media monitoring, as well as the usual collection of stop-gap jobs, which have ranged from a brief stint with a well-known fast-food chain to being an artist's model.

He has had about forty stories published, mostly fantasy or horror, in various magazines, webzines, and anthologies, including Penumbra, Lore, Wily Writers, and The Thirteenth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories. His novel At An Uncertain Hour was published by StoneGarden, and he's had novellas out from Musa Publishing and Fox & Raven, among others. He's currently working on various projects, from a fantasy trilogy called The Winter Legend to a series of stories for young children.

Nyki is an administrator for the online fantasy writers' group fantasy-writers.org and runs the live group East Herts Fantasy Writers. He has also had many poems published, and has performed poetry and music at various venues around London, including frequent appearances at the legendary coffee-house Bunjies, which in the 60s hosted artists such as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and David Bowie. He's also been known to sing in public, but only for as long as it takes to find a crooked stick to pull him off.