Carly Holmes lives and writes on the west coast of Wales, UK. Her debut novel, The Scrapbook, which formed the creative element of her PhD, was shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award in 2015, and her Literary Strange short story collection, Figurehead, was published by Tartarus Press in 2018, to much critical acclaim. Three of the stories within have been selected for reprint in Best of anthologies. Her award-winning short fiction has also appeared in many journals and anthologies, such as Ambit, Black Static, and The Ghastling.