Andrew David Barker is an author and filmmaker. Born in Derby, England in 1975, Barker has had pretty much every job going. In his time he has worked as a window fitter, a rail track worker, a factory worker, a carpet salesman, a car cleaner, a delivery driver, a bricklayers' labourer, a shop assistant, and a care worker, among others. None of them stuck.
In the late 90s he played lead guitar in a rock band. They got signed, made a single, played London, thought they were famous, and, subsequently, imploded.
As a filmmaker, he wrote and directed the little-seen opus, A Reckoning – a last man on earth tale which won acclaim from many who saw it - and has made several award-winning short films, inculding Shining Tor and Laura Living Backwards, which he co-wrote.
He is the author of The Electric, Dead Leaves, The Winterman, and Society Place, and is an Arts Council Grant recipient for his writing.
He is also the co-screenwriter of the upcoming feature, The Wilding, and the writer/director of the micro-horror, The House on Lidderman Street.
He now lives in Warwickshire with his wife and daughters, trying to be a grown up.