Nina Allan

Nina Allan was born in London and grew up in the south east of England. Her first published piece of fiction appeared in a magazine called Dark Horizons in 2002. Since then, her stories have featured in numerous magazines and anthologies including The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Best Horror of the Year and The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime.

She has a lifelong love of speculative fiction, including science fiction, the gothic, weird fiction and good old fashioned ghost stories. In her work she likes to test the boundaries of genre: playing with philosophical ideas, savouring language, and experimenting with form. Ideas around landscape and sense of place, memory and personal identity form important strands in all her novels and stories.

Her first novel was The Race, released in 2016. She has won the British Science Fiction Award, the Novella Award, the Kitschies Red Tentacle and France’s Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire.

She lives and works in Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute.