Gilli Fryzer was the winner of the 2014 Birkbeck MA Creative Writing Prize, as well as one of the winners of the 2015 Neil Gaiman/Word Factory competition, Fables For A Modern World. Her short stories and poetry have also been published in Earthlines, Mechanics' Institute Review, Word Factory TV and online. She is a current Birkbeck PhD student at work on her first novel.