Michael Hughes is a native of Keady in Co., Armagh. A writer, successful stage and screen actor, lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London, he also works in film production and script development.

His engrossing debut novel, The Countenance Divine, (2016) is an apocalyptic thriller, followed by, Country, (2018) which was shortlisted for the UK nominations for the European Union Prize for Literature 2019.