China Tom Mi�ville is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer and academic. He is fond of describing his fiction as "weird fiction", and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is active in left-wing politics as a member of the International Socialist Organization and formerly a member of the Socialist Workers Party until resigning in 2013 over the SWP internal crisis about allegations of rape against 'Comrade Delta'. In 2013 he became a founding member of Left Unity. He stood for Regent's Park and Kensington North for the Socialist Alliance in the 2001 UK General election. He published his PhD thesis on Marxism and international law as a book in 2005. He teaches creative writing at Warwick University, and in 2012?13 he was Writer-in-Residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. 

September 6th, 1972 in Norwich (Age 52)