"Author of seventeen novels, Graham Joyce is a writer of speculative fiction fusing realistic and fantastic tendencies. A Graham Joyce novel often blends a highly evolved narrative with idiosyncratic humour, genre elements and a search for the miraculous His method is to adopt the tropes of genre forms while discarding formulaic tendencies. Has been described variously as "slipstream", "magical realist", and interstitial though he is quicker to acknowledge the influence of a British Gothic tradition running from Lewis Carroll, Arthur Machen and Alan Garner to Angela Carter."
Graham Joyce is a winner of the O Henry short story award, the World Fantasy Award for Best novel, the British Fantasy Award, the Grand Prix D’Imaginaire and the Angus award. He has been translated into over twenty languages. He has also written a book of non-fiction.
