Lloyd Jones is a Wellington-based writer with several novels to his name: Mister Pip (Text, 2008), which won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize; The Book of Fame (Penguin, 2000); and Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance (Penguin, 2000), among others.

His most recent novel is Hand Me Down World (Text, 2010).