Joe Gillespie is a retired graphic designer who is now based in Bristol. Since retiring he has focused on a number of creative and artistic projects, including three science fiction novels each with their own unique tangent and flavour. Having spent his life working in graphic design and having won two awards for his work in advertising in the 1980s, Joe has a long history of producing resourceful and inventive excellence, which is exemplified in the way he melds different worlds together in his novels. His love of nature and animals makes him passionate about the impact and welfare of both these creatures and humans in a general sense.