Stef Pixner is a Londoner born and bred, with Central and Eastern European roots. She has published a poetry collection (Virago) with her own line drawings. Her stories have come third in both the Bridport and Fish Prize competitions, and have been, variously, runner up, short-listed and long-listed, for the V S Pritchett Memorial Prize, the Fish Prize, Real Writers and the Ian St James Award. She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship, and also the Kate Betts Memorial Prize for the best work on the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester 2016.
