Craig Charlesworth was born in Nottinghamshire in 1979 and read English at Anglia Ruskin University as well as picking up a diploma in nursing from the University of York, seemingly just for fun. He is probably best known for his work for the Canadian publisher Pencil Tip, with whom he has published a number of short stories and a full-length novel, The Cuckoo in Winter.

He currently lives in Yorkshire with his wife Helen and son Emmett and works as a prescriptions administrator for the NHS.

He likes dogs, but couldn't eat a whole one.