Content warning: these extracts contain strong language and references to homophobia, transphobia, sex and body horror.

Carmilla is an aspiring writer from Bournemouth. She has a deep fondness for mythology and exploring the moral and social complexities of humanity, especially through LGBTQ+ characters. She enjoys mixing magical realism, urban fantasy, mythpunk, sci-fi and horror with personal introspection and social commentary.

Given her equal passion for prose and poetry, she's begun experimenting with hybridising them as a more personal way to convey her ideas. Inspired by Tamsyn Muir, Alison Rumfitt, Angela Carter, Holly Black, and Reece Lyons, she's working on stories that centre morally complex LGBTQ+ (especially trans+) characters, their struggles, their triumphs, and their desire to live on their own terms.

The final piece is a short extract from A Twist of Fa(t)e, a magical realism mythpunk novelette combining prose and poetry in hybrid forms, covering the fateful encounter of two trans women, one human and one fae in a fae-run nightclub, confronting the darker side of myths, the strains on camaraderie in the face of survival, and to always be careful what you wish for.

Work in Bournemouth (currently looking), continue writing with the aim of publishing.