His son recently started crawling, which is bad news for his cat. His stories are frequently read at the Liar's League events in London, and have won prizes from Unbound Press, the Writers and Artists Yearbook, and Spilling Ink, as well as being published in .Cent and Litro magazines and coming third in the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize in 2011. He is currently collaborating on an art book about Hackney Marshes, and his writing can be found at http://bearsick.tumblr.com and @bearsick.