Trevor Barton had times as a boy when the parental home was not the right place to be, such as when, in his teens, one of his parents was killed. He's enthralled by personal heroism and life's profundity, though on the page only when contrasted with just how gritty all of our living can also be. It glitches, but he swears his internal mental physics engine is still just about in working order.

As a kid he wrote one song a week—usually on religious themes, but his sense of the world, and what could be done through writing, broadened hugely at Bath Spa where he delivered a play script with distinction: a study on a college girl living a sensorily deprived existence in suburbia, and having a mystical wake up. After this, his cultural studies MA drew on feminism, film studies, and what was available to him in AI philosophy in the late 90s to explore why our culture developed a myth of cyborgs—and what that tells us about ourselves.

He became managing editor of a nationally distributed web technology magazine very early on in his working life, then—enthused about new media—configured web apps or handled site construction for names like Nature and OUP. This got him bar-crawling Nashville or sharing sidewalks with alligators in Florida while on business trips to meet the staff behind leading scientific journals. He has since worked at management level in the charity sector, established several successful community groups in the area of mental wellbeing, and climbed mountains.

Able to return to professional writing again only recently, Trevor's first three books, a space opera trilogy, were offered contracts by UK and US publishers. In 2019, it was this work which made him a top twenty author for the LGBT science fiction category, while he also had a short story published in a US sci-fi anthology. His fourth novel, Making Contact, will be published with Hawkwood Books for the autumn of 2021.