Allen Stroud is a university lecturer and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer from Bedfordshire, England. He worked on the computer game Elite: Dangerous with David Braben and Frontier Developments as both a concept writer and official author, publishing Elite: Lave Revolution in 2014. The audio version from the Radio Theatre Workshop was launched in 2018. He writes for role-playing games and computer games and is currently Lead Writer on Phoenix Point.

In 2017, Allen won a short story competition to appear in the Clarke Award anthology with Clarke Award winners and nominees. That anthology, 2001: An Anthology in Words was published in June 2018, by Newcon Press.

Allen writes reviews for The British Fantasy Society, SFBook.com and Concatenation.org and is the editor of the British Fantasy Society Journal. He was the Chair of Fantasycon for 2017 and 2018.

Allen's personal website is here - http://www.allenstroud.com.

Allen's research interests focus around Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror, with a focus on print outputs, film, television, audio and games. A particular focus in looking at mythology and mythic construction as well as the referential qualities of each genre.

Allen is a practice based researcher, applying critical writing to his creative outputs.