Andrew Hayward writes interconnected literary speculative fiction, including the Drowned Age universe — a nine-book sequence set on a drowned near-future Earth. His debut trilogy, beginning with The Ordinary Dawn, is under contract with Foreshore Publishing. Alongside writing, he has spent his career as a CEO and CRO of technology businesses, and his fiction draws on a lifelong fascination with how institutions hold or lose trust. He divides his time between South Buckinghamshire and West Cornwall.