
Mo Hayder has worked as a filmmaker, Tokyo nightclub hostess, and English language teacher in Asia. She is also the author of BIRDMAN; THE TREATMENT; THE DEVIL OF NANKING, winner of the Elle Magazine crime fiction prize; PIG ISLAND, shortlisted for the Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel; RITUAL, shortlisted both for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award and for the coveted Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award; SKIN; and GONE; as well as the winner of the 2011 Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library award for outstanding body of work. She lives in England.
Mo Hayder