James Smythe

James Smythe is a writer who has a PhD from Cardiff University in Wales. Smythe was born in London and now lives in West Sussex. Since receiving a PhD from Cardiff University in Wales, he has worked as both a Creative Writing teacher and as a writer/narrative designer of video games. He currently writes a continuing series of articles for The Guardian called Rereading Stephen King. He performs intermittently in an improvised comedy group and has written a book about Twitter. Smythe's book The Machine was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2014.