Martyn Bedford (born 1959) is a British novelist and literary critic.

He is an alumnus of the University of East Anglia.^[1]

The first twelve years of Martyn Bedford's writing career were spent as a journalist on regional newspapers. His initial book Acts of Revision won the Yorkshire Post “Best First Work” Award.^[2] He later became the director of the novel writing programme at the University of Manchester, and is fiction critic for the Literary Review.^[3] Currently, Bedford teaches the Creative Writing module at Leeds Trinity University.^[4]

In 2008–10, he was Academic Writer-in-Residence, Royal Literary Fund Fellow.^[1] Bedford lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, with his wife and two daughters.

• 2011: Costa Book Awards, shortlist, Flip

• Acts of Revision (Doubleday, 1996)
• Exit, Orange & Red (Bantam, 1997)
• The Houdini Girl (Random House, 1999)
• Black Cat (Viking, 2000)
• The Virtual Disappearance of Miriam (digital narrative, 2000)
• The Island of Lost Souls (Bloomsbury, 2006)
• Flip (Walker, 2011)
• Never Ending (Walker, 2014)
• Twenty Questions for Gloria (Walker, 2016)