Daniel O'Connor is the Colm Tóibín Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool. His debut novel, Nothing (2020), was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. His current creative interests are on Northern identity in relation to movement, class, masculinity and ideas of home. He is currently writing about these issues in relation to the North-East of England. His critical research focuses on twentieth-century literature and includes his monograph, Ted Hughes and Trauma (Palgrave, 2016).
