Background
Martyn Bedford was born on October 10, 1959 in Croydon, United Kingdom. Son of Peter (a sheet metal worker) and Marjorie (a wages clerk; maiden name: Skinner) Bedford.
Martyn Bedford was born on October 10, 1959 in Croydon, United Kingdom. Son of Peter (a sheet metal worker) and Marjorie (a wages clerk; maiden name: Skinner) Bedford.
Martyn has a M.A. degree in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 1994.
The first twelve years of Martyn Bedford's writing career were spent as a journalist on regional newspapers. He worked as a reporter and features writer at South London Press, London, United Kingdom from 1980 till 1985. From 1985 till 1987 he was a sports writer at South Wales Echo, Cardiff. In 1988 he worked as a reporter at Citizen, Gloucester, United Kingdom. From 1988 till 1993 he was a features writer and subeditor at Oxford Mail and Times, Oxford, United Kingdom. He later became the director of the novel writing programme at the University of Manchester, and is fiction critic for the Literary Review. Currently, Bedford teaches the Creative Writing module at Leeds Trinity University. In 2008-2010 he was Academic Writer-in-Residence, Royal Literary Fund Fellow.
Martyn married Damaris Croxall (a librarian) on January 8, 1994.