Molly Aitken

Molly Aitken is the author of Bright I Burn a New Yorker and BBC Best Books of 2024. She was shortlisted for the X 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. Molly is a PhD student in Creative Writing and History at Sheffield Hallam University.