Adam Weymouth is an author and journalist who has written for a wide range of publications, including The Atlantic, The Guardian, the BBC, and Granta. Weymouth won The Sunday Times/PFD 2018 Young Writer of the Year Award for his first book, Kings of the Yukon, which was published to great acclaim, shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize, named the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year, and chosen as a notable title for the 2018 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. He was named one of ten writers shaping the UK's future by the National Centre for Writing, and lives on the southeast coast of England.