Andy Brown is the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. A well-known poet, he has published seven highly praised collections of poetry, including Exurbia (Worple 2014) and Goose Music (with John Burnside, Salt 2008). He is co-editor of a major new poetry anthology, A Body of Work: Poetry and Medical Writing (Bloomsbury 2015). Apples and Prayers is his first novel.