LYNDA CLARK is currently Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Her debut novel, Beyond Kidding (Fairlight, 2019) is in development with Film4 and BAFTA winner William Stefan Smith. Her collection, Dreaming in Quantum, (Fairlight, 2021) contains the highly acclaimed “Ghillie’s Mum”, which won the Commonwealth Prize for Europe & Canada and was shortlisted in the BBC Short Story Award and the Tom Gallon Prize. A new weird novel is on the way in November 2026. She lives on the East coast of Scotland with her husband and dog, Badger.