Philip Dodd was born in 1952, lives in Liverpool, England, has a degree in English literature from Newcastle University, and has been writing songs, stories and poems since he was twelve. His first book, Angel War, was published as a paperback in April, 2013, and as an E-book in March, 2014. It could be described as a work of fantasy fiction, rooted in The Bible. It was chosen as one of the twelve finalists for The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards for 2013 in the adult (fiction) category. Inspired by a tiny toy model of a turtle, designed to fit on the end of a pencil, his second book, Klubbe the Turkle and the Golden Star Coracle, was published in March, 2015. A light-hearted science fiction story, it is the biography of Klubbe, inventor, explorer, who lives with his fellow turkles on the planet, Ankor. When it is completed, Philip Dodd plans to publish Assinarc, Book Two of the Biography of Klubbe. His third book, Still the Dawn: Poems and Ballads, was published in October, 2015. He has had poems published in his local newspaper, the Liverpool Echo, The Dawntreader, a quarterly poetry magazine, published by Indigo Dreams Publishing, Mallorn, the Journal of the Tolkien Society, and in Greek Fire, an anthology of poems inspired by Greek mythology, published by Lost Tower Publications in 2015.