Matt Bates
Matt Bates worked as the lead fiction buyer for WH Smith Travel prior to a creative writing degree at London University and an MLitt at Glasgow University. He has been a judge on both the Costa Book Prize and the Booksellers’ Association debut fiction prize. He was the curator of the influential 2017 WHS promotion that celebrated the 50th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality, and is Editor at Large for Muswell Press, advising on the LGBTQI+ list.
