Molly Aitken
Molly Aitken is the author of Bright I Burn a New Yorker and BBC Best Books of 2024. Recently shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Prize. Molly’s first novel, The Island Child was longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Molly’s short fiction has been dramatised for BBC Radio 4 and appeared in Ploughshares, for which she won the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction 2023. In 2025, Molly has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Prize. Molly is a PhD student in Creative Writing and History at Sheffield Hallam University.
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