Jon Doyle is a writer based in Port Talbot. He came to fiction by way of zoology, with a BSc and MRes in the subject, before an MA in Creative Writing at Cardiff University and a PhD at Swansea. He was part of Literature Wales' Representing Wales scheme in 2022/23 and won the Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers' Prize in 2023; his short work has appeared in Ploughshares Online, The Rumpus and 3:AM Magazine. Communion, his first novel, was named an Observer Best Debut of 2026 and an Editor's Choice in The Bookseller.