Malina Douglas spins stories that fuse the fantastic and the real, blending history and fantasy to conjure distant eras and worlds. She was awarded Editor’s Choice in the Hammond House International Literary Prize and was a finalist in the Four Palaces Fiction Anthology Contest. In 2022, she was longlisted for the Reflex Press Prize, the Bath Short Story Prize and the Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Award. Alongside multiple anthology publications, she is the author of Red Panda Warrior, Jade Mountain and tweets @iridescentwords.