Vicky GrutVicky Grut was born in South Africa and lived in Madagascar and Italy before moving to England in 1980 to study fine art at Goldsmiths. She has worked in community arts, for a small independent publisher, as a freelance editor, in the London office o the New Yorker magazine, as a creative writing tutor and a lecturer in several universities, including the London South Bank University and the University of Greenwich. Her first short story was published in 1994 in Metropolitan magazine and since then her work has appeared in new writing collections and literary magazines around the world, including collections published by Picador, Granta, Duckworth, Serpents' Tail and Bloomsbury. Vicky was twice a finalist for the Asham Award. "Into the Valley" was listed as a Notable Essays of 2012 in Best American Essays 2013. "In the Current Climate" won the Holland Park Press "I is Another" contest in 2015. Her novel-in-progress Human Geography was shortlisted for the 2017 Caledonia Novel Award. Read More Read Less