It features 'Sour Hall', a story originally commissioned by Audible Originals and Virago as part of the Hag project, which invited contemporary female writers to re-tell regional folktales. My first short story collection, Animals at Night, was published in 2022, and includes stories that have been long-listed for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize, and anthologised in Best British Short Stories. It was named a Fiction Book of the Year 2020 by the Guardian, who described it as a "timely and original dissection of class and desperation in Brexit London". My second novel, Exit Management (2020), moves between contemporary Britain and 1940s Budapest. My first novel, Sealed (2017), is a work of eco-horror, which was shortlisted for the Not the Booker Award 2018. This inspired my first work of fiction, The Lost Art of Sinking (2015), an experimental novella about passing out, which was selected for New Writing North’s Read Regional campaign 2017 and won the Saboteur Award for Best Novella 2016. I completed my PhD research in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Sussex, where I researched the literary history of swooning.
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