Sophie Wellstood grew up in rural Warwickshire. Her fiction was first published in 2013, in Stories for Homes, an anthology for Shelter. She was longlisted for the Bath Award in 20...view moreSophie Wellstood grew up in rural Warwickshire. Her fiction was first published in 2013, in Stories for Homes, an anthology for Shelter. She was longlisted for the Bath Award in 2016 and shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize 2016. Her debut novel won Triskele Books’ Big 5 competition and was shortlisted for the 2017 Caledonian Novel Award. She has another story forthcoming in Stories for Homes Vol 2, due November 2017. She lives in west London and is working on her second novel and a short story collection.view less