Francoise Harvey lives in the North East of England. She has had work published in The Dark, Best British Short Stories 2017 (Salt, ed. Nicholas Royle), Black Static, Interzone, The Lonely Crowd, Litro, TSS (theshortstory.co.uk), Confingo and others, as well as a standalone chapbook (‘Guest’) published by Nightjar Press. She was shortlisted for the 2016 Bristol Prize and 2016 Bridport Prize, won a 2017 Northern Writers’ Award (children’s fiction and YA), and was awarded a DYCP grant from Arts Council England in 2021. She’s trying to put a short story collection together.