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Tommy Kennedy IV is a Warrington-born writer who carries the scars of a life lived. He did not find his stories in an office; he found them building walls, breaking laws, and roaming the world for fifteen years across Europe, India, South East Asia, and America. Before he began studying for his Creative Writing degree, he was a bricklayer, a hustler, and an outlaw who learned the price of every choice up close the night a Kingston warder slid the bolt and left him holding a toothbrush sharpened into a spike. The story starts there, not in a classroom.

Tommy writes in a gritty noir style, crafting narratives soaked in working-class pride, resilience, and dark humour. His prose blends raw, lived detail with the rhythm of real-life reflection, ensuring every page feels earned. The unvarnished truth found in his work, including the memoir *Nightmare in Jamaica*, has earned his three books a permanent place in the British Library.

He deleted social media to focus solely on his craft. New stories and reflections arrive regularly on his blog.