Chris McQueer is the acclaimed author of the short story collections Hings and HWFG. Stories from Hings were adapted for TV by Chris and shown on BBC Scotland, and he's presented the documentaries Noteworthy with Chris McQueer and Let's Talk About the English, and has also appeared on A View From the Terrace and Damian Barr's Big Scottish Book Club. He won the award for Outstanding Literature at the Herald Scottish Culture Awards 2019 and has had two plays staged. He currently teaches creative writing and English to prison inmates. He lives just outside Glasgow. Hermit is his first novel.