Max Porter is the author of four novels, including the Sunday Times #1 bestseller Shy, the Booker Prize longlisted Lanny,  and the multiple-award-winning Grief is the Thing with Feathers. His work has been translated into 33 languages.

Porter’s screen adaptation of Shy, starring Cillian Murphy, is currently in post-production with Netflix. He is also the author of The Death of Francis Bacon, praised as ‘a miniature masterpiece’, the short film All of this Unreal Time and the pamphlet It’s Going to Be a Bright New Day with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.

Max frequently collaborates with musicians, songwriters, artists and theatre-makers. He is currently writer in residence in a UK prison, and Associate Artist at the Southbank Centre. He will chair the judging panel for the International Booker Prize 2025.