I’m a British author who lives in County Monaghan, Ireland. When it gets too dark and cold, my fiancé and I scuttle off to our house in the hills near Girona. Born to a Yugoslav mother and a Cornish father, I grew up mostly in London. I wrote my debut novel BLACK BUTTERFLIES to understand the siege that devastated my mother’s hometown of Sarajevo from 1992-1996. It turned many of my relatives, including my grandparents, into refugees. It is inspired by their stories and, in particular, by the extraordinary tale of my great-uncle, the Bosnian landscape painter Dobrivoje Beljkasic. BLACK BUTTERFLIES has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize and the Nota Bene Prize. It was chosen as Indie Fiction Book of the Month in May 2022. I love teaching as well as writing and teach creative writing at University College Dublin. I have a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and read Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. Find out more at www.priscillamorris.org. Connect with me on instagram on @priscillamorriswriter.