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Peter Merrens is a novelist, essayist, and independent theorist working at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and speculative physics.

It takes some time to prise out the elements of Peter's past that influence his writing. That his rootstock is Armenian and Jewish in equal measure might, as he puts it, have given him "a better instinct for running and hiding than most". That he was raised in Sri Lanka, India, Canada, Singapore and the UK might give him a broad cultural facility. 

That he would holiday with his parents in Moscow at the height of the Cold War — until his father was mysteriously killed in a shooting 'accident' when he was 12. That in his early years he would make ends meet by gathering up discarded vegetables from a west London street market, but subsequently built a career that led him to work in a dozen countries, learn multiple languages and live in the UK, Denmark, Singapore, India, the USA, Sri Lanka and France. These elements combine to create a rare comfort with multiple cultures, tempered by introversion and an ingrained fear of relying on others.

He writes fiction and non-fiction and teaches post-graduate students in management and communications at UT (Dallas). He is a Leadership coach for certain CEOs. And if that was not enough, he writes physics papers, that may be wrong — but that is the point.

Today, Peter lives in a self-built home in the middle of a bluebell wood in rural Kent, the wannabe Napa valley of the UK, and can be found sharpening axes, carrying trees and foraging when not obsessively researching some new topic. He is married to Hannah who is, thank Phanes, a merciless editor.