Tyler Keevil was born in Edmonton and raised in Vancouver, and moved to Wales in his mid-twenties after years working as a landscaper, tree-planter and ice-barge deckhand. His books include the novels Fireball (Parthian, 2010), The Drive (Myriad, 2013), No Good Brother (HarperCollins, 2018) and Your Still Beating Heart (Myriad, 2020), and the story collection Burrard Inlet (Parthian, 2014). He has twice won the Wales Book of the Year People's Prize, as well as the Journey Prize and The Missouri Review Editors' Prize. He teaches creative writing at Cardiff University.