Will Eaves is a novelist, poet, teacher and musician. He has been Arts Editor of The Times Literary Supplement (1995–2011) and Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Warwick (2011–2020). His books have been shortlisted for many prizes. His most recent novel, Murmur (2018), won the tenth anniversary Wellcome Book Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize for fiction in 2019. He co-presents a podcast about neuroscience and literature with Professor Sophie Scott of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL.
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