| Martyn Bedford | |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | University of East Anglia |
Martyn Bedford (born 1959) is a British novelist and literary critic.
He is an alumnus of the University of East Anglia.[1]
The first twelve years of Martyn Bedford's writing career were spent as a journalist on regional newspapers, notably at the Bradford Telegraph and Argus.[2]
His initial book Acts of Revision won the Yorkshire Post “Best First Work” Award.[3] He later became the director of the novel writing programme at the University of Manchester, and is fiction critic for the Literary Review.[4] Currently, Bedford teaches the Creative Writing module at Leeds Trinity University.[5]
In 2008–10, he was Academic Writer-in-Residence, Royal Literary Fund Fellow.Bedford lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, with his wife and two daughters.