Philippa Holloway is an author and academic, teaching Creative Writing at Staffordshire University. Her debut novel, The Half-life of Snails (Parthian Books), has been featured in an international podcast and serialized in a national newspaper.

Her short fiction/non-fiction is published in the US, Australia, Africa, Europe and the UK in various publications including Ascent, Bukker Tillibul, New Contrast, Litro, Literati, Lunate, Comma Press, Commonwealth Writers, and as a single-authored chapbook with Nightjar Press. She has also won prizes and literary awards including the Rhys Davies Short Story Award, the Fish Publishing Prize, The Scythe Prize, and the Writers & Artists Working Class Writers’ Prize.

She is the co-curator of 100 Words of Solitude, a global writing project responding to the pandemic, and co-editor of the collection 100 Words of Solitude: Global Voices in Lockdown 2020 (Rare Swan Press).

You can follow Philippa on Twitter @thejackdawspen and Instagram @thejackdawspen.