Adam Farrer is a writer, mentor and editor and currently works at the University of Salford, where he is the Writer in Residence for Peel Park. He has taught creative nonfiction and life writing at the University of Lancaster as well as extensively at retreats, literary festivals and prisons.

His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The Guardian, Metro, Hinterland and Test Signal (Bloomsbury/Dead Ink, 2021). Specialising in personal essays that use humour to tackle challenging subject matter, his writing has been praised by The TLS, The Mail on Sunday and Publishers Weekly. He is the author of two personal essay collections, Cold Fish Soup (Saraband, 2022), winner of the Northbound Book Award, and Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures (HarperNorth, 2025), and edits the creative nonfiction journal The Real Story.