Nina Allan

Nina Allan was born in Whitechapel, London and grew up in the Midlands and West Sussex. She fell in love with weird fiction at a young age, and counts H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine and John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids among her earliest inspirations. Her first published story appeared in the journal of the British Fantasy Society in 2002. Since then she has published four novels and four short fiction collections. Her second novel The Rift won the British Science Fiction Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle and was nominated for the Prix Femina in its French translation. Her novelette The Art of Space Travel was a finalist for the Hugo Award and her collection of linked stories The Silver Wind won the Grand Prix de L’imaginaire for Best Translated Work. She loves writing that pushes boundaries and dares to experiment. Her recently completed novel Conquest combines elements of non-fiction with a story of alien invasion and the music of J. S Bach and will be published by riverrun books in May 2023. Nina lives and works in Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute.