Biography
Steve Finbow is an independent scholar and author whose work spans fiction, nonfiction, and cultural history. In 2005, he wrote the script for Grace, produced by Quarantine Theatre Company, at the Contact Theatre, Manchester.
His novels and short stories include Balzac of the Badlands (2009), Tougher Than Anything in the Animal Kingdom (2011), Nothing Matters (2012), and Down Among the Dead (2014).
His nonfiction explores avant-garde art, experimental prose, and cultural history, with titles such as Pond Scum and Other Effluvia (2005), Allen Ginsberg: A Critical Biography (2012), Grave Desire: A Cultural History of Necrophilia (2014; updated and illustrated, 2024), Notes from the Sick Room (2017), Death Mort Tod (2018), and The Mindshaft (2020).
His recent works include Polaroid Haiku (with Jukka Siikala, 2023), The Life of the Artist Niccolò di Mescolano (2023), and the forthcoming The Disorder Diaries: Chronicles of Neurological Conditions in the Arts (2026), and In Extremis – the A to Z of Francis Bacon (2026).
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