Hannah Austin is a queer Welsh writer and editor based in Somerset. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Guardian, Mslexia, The Moth, New Welsh Review, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, The Real Story, The Mechanics Institute Review and others. She has been a finalist in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award (2018), the Fish Short Memoir Prize (2019) and the Center for Women Writers’ International Literary Awards (2019). She was recently awarded an Arts Council grant to start writing her first book.