Anne Wilkins is a sleep-deprived New Zealand teacher who writes in her spare time (which she has very little of). Her short fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Utopia Magazine, Small Wonders, The Dark, Elegant Literature, Sci-Fi Shorts and more. She won the June 2024 Elegant Literature Prize, the 2023 Autumn Writers Battle, and the 2023 Cambridge Autumn Festival Short Story Competition. Anne was a finalist for the 2025 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Literary Prize, the 2024 London Independent Story Prize (LISP) and placed third in the Hammond House 2024 International Literary Prize. She is shortlisted for the 2025 Bristol Short Story Prize. Her love of writing is fuelled by copious amounts of coffee, reading and hope. website: https://www.annewilkinsauthor.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annewilkinsauthor Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/annewilkins.bsky.social