K J Orr is the award-winning author of the short story collection *Light Box* (2016). Her short fiction has appeared in publications including the *Guardian*, the *Irish Times*, the *Dublin Review*, the *Sunday Times Magazine*, the *White Review* and *Best British Short Stories*, and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011, and won it in 2016. She is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at UEA, and holds a creative and critical doctorate on the short story from the University of Chichester. She is currently a Teaching Fellow at UEA, where she teaches on the MFA in Creative Writing. Her critical work and reviews have been published by the *TLS*, the *Guardian *and *Poetry Review* among others.
Found on the web at: www.kjorr.com
