Vid Weeks worked as a Musician, BBC researcher, Glassblower, Engineer, and for humanitarian organisations before writing his first children’s book in 2023: The folk Smuggler. Thirty percent of his DNA is Irish and he is a frequent visitor to Galway. He has lived on Bornholm, Denmark and in Germany, Thailand, France, and on a boat in the Baltic Sea, but now keeps most of his socks in Fitzrovia, London. He has two children and three grandchildren.