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Joel Lane
Joel Lane is the author of two novels, From Blue to Black and The Blue Mask; three short story collections, The Earth Wire, The Lost District and The Terrible Changes; a novella, The Witnesses Are Gone; a chapbook of crime stories, Do Not Pass Go; and four volumes of poetry, The Edge of the Screen, Trouble in the Heartland, The Autumn Myth and Instinct. He has edited two anthologies of short stories, Birmingham Noir (with Steve Bishop) and Beneath the Ground. Born in Exeter in 1963, he has lived in Birmingham since early childhood.