Sam Llewellyn
Sam Llewellyn was born on Tresco, Isles of Scilly, thirty miles west of Land’s End, Britain’s southwesternmost point. He was brought up between the coast road and the sea in North Norfolk, and writes continuously, fiction and non-fiction, usually about the sea or matters connected with it. Since 2010 he has been the Editor of the Marine Quarterly .
He is married to the prizewinning Canadian children’s author Karen Wallace. They live in a medieval farmhouse in Herefordshire, England’s most beautiful county. He spends months every year sailing from his base in the family bothy on the west coast of Scotland.