Edward Hogan

Edward Hogan is a British novelist and short story writer born in Derby in 1980. He studied English at Cambridge University and teaches creative writing at the University of Edinburgh. His debut novel Blackmoor (2008) is set in a fictional former mining village in Derbyshire where a lake has formed over the ruined pit, following a young boy's intense and troubled relationship with his passionate, unpredictable mother. Blackmoor won the Desmond Elliott Prize in 2009 and was praised for its lyrical evocation of post-industrial English landscape and its psychological precision. His second novel The Hunger Trace (2011) is set in Derbyshire and follows two women brought together by a landscape of falconry and loss. Hogan's fiction is characterised by its vivid sense of place — specifically the midlands and northern English landscape — and its exploration of working-class family life.