Max Porter
Max Porter lives in London and works at Granta Books. He was the editor of The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, and his own novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers is one of the most admired books of the past several years. Max was born in 1981 in High Wycombe.

Rot and decay: an extract from the new novel by Max Porter
After editing The Luminaries, Max Porter released his own book, Grief Is the Thing With Feathers. His new novel Lanny is short and strange; every page squishes with imagery, a rich compost of words.