Paul Magrs

Paul Magrs is a full-time author and former Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he began work in 2004. He also formerly taught at the University of East Anglia. He did his PhD at the University of Lancaster.

He created the character of Iris Wildthyme.

A minor character in the Virgin New Adventure Love and War, a junior archaeologist in Bernice Summerfield's party, was named after him.