Julia Armfield was born in London in 1990. She is a fiction writer with a Master's in Victorian Art and Literature from Royal Holloway University. She was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award, and won the White Review Short Story Prize as well as the Pushcart Prize. Salt Slow is her critically acclaimed short story collection. Our Wives Under The Sea is her first novel.