Rosie Garland writes short & long fiction, poetry & hybrid works that fall between and outside definition. She’s lead singer in post-punk band The March Violets. Poetry collection ‘What Girls Do In The Dark’ (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2021, & her novel The Night Brother was described by The Times as “a delight…with shades of Angela Carter.” Val McDermid has named her one of the most compelling LGBT+ writers in the UK today. Her latest novel, ‘The Fates’ (Quercus) is a retelling of the Greek myth of the Fates. In 2023 she was made Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

'A heady mix of the surreal and all too real, this collection is by turns beguiling and horrifying. These are stories for lovers of Angela Carter and Franz Kafka, but Garland also gives them their own sensibility, their own biting tongues. Each little beast of a tale creates its own often fantastical world, yet it beats with an eerie reality of the world we live in. I dare you to read it.' - Molly Aitken, Author of Bright I Burn