Emma Jane Unsworth is a journalist and won the Betty Trask Award for her novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything (Hidden Gem, 2011) and was shortlisted for the 2012 Portico Prize. Her short story ‘I Arrive First’ was included in The Best British Short Stories 2012 (Salt). Animals will be released by Canongate Books on 1 May 2014. She lives in Manchester.