Claire Dean is a writer, lecturer, and researcher living in the north of England. Her short stories have been widely published and are included in Best British Short Stories 2011, 2014 & 2017 (Salt). Bremen, The Unwish, Marionettes, and Into the Penny Arcade are published as chapbooks by Nightjar Press. Her first collection, The Museum of Shadows and Reflections, was published by Unsettling Wonder in 2016.