Krishan Coupland

Krishan Coupland is the Director and Editor of Neon Literary Magazine, one of the UK's longest-running independent literary journals. He is a writer, artist, game designer, and publisher at Neon Books. He is a graduate of the University of East Anglia MA Creative Writing programme. He is the co-founder of the Liminal Residency, an alternative writers’ retreat that takes place in abandoned, in-between, and otherwise overlooked spaces.

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Krishan's writing has been published in Ambit, Aesthetica, Litro, Punch, the Best British Short Stories 2017, the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology, The South Circular, and Popshot Quaterly, among others. He won the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Bare Fiction Prize, and the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. His stories have also been shortlisted for other prizes. When You Lived Inside The Wall (Stonewood Press) is his debut chapbook of short stories.

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Krishan has participated in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival via Virgin Money Street Events, and has performed at events for The Royal Bank of Scotland, and numerous others. He sometimes busks with an ancient typewriter at festivals and markets where he writes improvised poems for passers-by.  

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His second and third book of short stories is forthcoming from Quilled Ink Press.