Richard Salsbury is an award-winning writer from the south of England. His debut novel, the darkly comic thriller Mute, was published in 2023 and followed in 2025 by Gifts of Anger. His shorter work has appeared in Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Artificium, World Wide Writers, Portsmouth News, the Fairlight Books website and on BBC Radio. He is the website designer for environmental writing project Pens of the Earth and one of the editors (along with his wife) of their anthology Wild Seas, Wilder Cities. He also plays the guitar and brews his own beer.