On the Bodies of Strangers

Our lives, our experiences and the people we encounter leave behind indelible marks. On the Bodies of Strangers is a collection of stories about marked lives and marked flesh. The stories in this collection are linked by a single thread: the tattoos of their protagonists, traces of experiences and meaning etched onto their skin.

These are stories about the chaos of ordinary lives, about people who are flawed, complicated, but always deeply human. From domestic abuse to unexpected friendship, mixing horror and hope, intimacies and lies, On the Bodies of Strangers explores the many ways we mark each other and ourselves as we navigate the complexities of human relationships.

Hannah is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her debut collection of stories, In Their Absence, was published by Roman Books, and was translated into Bulgarian by Ana Pipeva for Altera Press. Her writing has featured in numerous anthologies, including The Fairlight Book of Short Stories, High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories, and Unthology 10: Fight or Flight. She is widely published in literary journals and magazines globally, including Archer Magazine (Australia), Loose Lips (Canada), Necessary Fiction (USA), Idle Ink, Litro Magazine, Losslit, Fictive Dream, and TSS Publishing (all UK). She is currently working on her third collection of stories and a crime detective novel inspired by her time living and working in Taiwan. She has undertaken writing residencies, including in Yangon, Myanmar, at the Literature and Translation House in Sofia, Bulgaria, and at the Taiwan Literature Base, Taipei. Hannah is also an editor and creative events producer, and has worked around the world on projects using writing and storytelling as tools for positive social change. She has worked with the BBC, the British Embassy, Greenpeace, and many others.