Robert Dodds

Robert Dodds was born in England and grew up in Yorkshire and Kent with his parents, a neurotic dog, and a tortoise. He went to Oxford University to study English and play golf, and then became a teacher. After a few years working in England, Mexico, and the USA, he settled in Edinburgh. By this time he was a filmmaker as well as a teacher, and he set up a new degree course in film and television production at Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1980s. He still works at Edinburgh College of Art for part of the year.

Robert Dodds has written four children’s novels, all published by Andersen Press. They are The Midnight Clowns, Nightland, The Secret of Iguando, and The Murrian. These are tense supernatural thrillers, and feature the same main characters – Claire Swift and her brother Ben. For adults, he has written a collection of short stories published by Polygon, Rattlesnake and Other Tales, and has had a number of stories broadcast on BBC radio.