Nell Stevens writes memoir and fiction. Her debut novel, Briefly, A Delicious Life, was long listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize and was a Financial Times Book of the Year. She is the author of two non-fiction books, Bleaker House and Mrs Gaskell & Me, which won the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award. Her writing is published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue, The Paris Review, New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta and elsewhere.