Paul Burston is the author of Shameless, The Black Path (longlisted for the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize), and Lovers & Losers (shortlisted for a Stonewall Award). He was a founding editor of Attitude magazine and has written for the Guardian, Independent, Time Out, Times, and Sunday Times. He is the founder and host of London's LGBT+ literary salon Polari and founder and chair of The Polari First Book Prize for new writing.