Julia Armfield
United KingdomAbout
Julia Armfield is a British fiction writer and occasional playwright based in London. She holds a master’s degree in Victorian Art and Literature from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her writing blends literary fiction, gothic horror, and speculative fiction, often exploring the body, identity, love, grief, and the unsettling boundaries between the familiar and the unknown. She is the author of the short story collection salt slow (2019) and the acclaimed novels Our Wives Under the Sea (2022), which won the Polari Prize in 2023, and Private Rites (2024). Her distinctive, atmospheric prose has established her as an original voice in contemporary British literature.
