Paul Brownsey was once a newspaper reporter in Luton, Bedfordshire, and is now a lecturer in philosophy at Glasgow University. He finds the mind-set required for writing fiction entirely different from that required for academic writing. His stories have appeared in literary magazines throughout the United Kingdom and in others in Canada, the U.S.A., and Germany. He lives in Bearsden, on the outskirts of Glasgow.

Paul's story 'Out There' appears in Parenthesis.