Camilla Grudova is the author of the critically-acclaimed The Doll’s Alphabet, Children of Paradise, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and The Coiled Serpent, longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She has won the Shirley Jackson Prize for her short story ‘Waxy’ and was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2023 and a Frank O’Connor Fellow in 2024. Her fiction has appeared in The White Review, Granta and The Stinging Fly and her criticism in the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The TLS.