Andrew Knighton

Andrew Knighton was born in Nottingham in 1978 and grew up on the edge of Norwich, a city whose rich medieval heritage fostered his fascination with the past. He studied history at Durham University, with a focus on medieval warfare, before spendig a decade working in office jobs and briefly as a teacher. Along the way, he started writing and publishing short stories. In 2013, he quit a life of spreadsheets and meetings to strike out on his own as a freelance writer, with a focus on business writing and ghostwritten books for digital publishers. He’s written articles and video scripts on history for resource sites such as History.com and War History Online.

Andrew’s fiction is a mixture of fantasy, science fiction, and historical settings. His published work includes over seventy short stories, two novellas, and an alternate history military thriller, The Bear’s Claws, co-written with Russell Phillips. Andrew’s comic career began when he entered Top Cow’s 2013 talent hunt. Since then, he’s written for Top Cow and Commando, with Commando scripts stretching across a thousand years of history, from the Battle of Hastings to Vietnam and The Falklands War.