Heather Parry is a fiction writer and editor originally from Rotherham, South Yorkshire. She is the author of two books - a novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, and a short story collection, This Is My Body, Given For You. She won the 2016 Bridge Award for an Emerging Writer, Cove Park's 2017 Emerging Writer residency, the Laxfield Literary Launch Prize in 2021 and was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2021. Heather lives in Glasgow with her partner and their cats, Ernesto and Fidel.