F. C. Malby

F. C. Malby is a novelist, poet and short fiction author. She won The People’s Book Awards, the Litro Fiction Award, and Publication of the Year at Spillwords Press. Her work has been widely published internationally, both online and in print.

Malby’s debut novel, Take Me to the Castle, is an insightful portrayal of people dealing with enormous change in 1990s Czech Republic after the Velvet Revolution. Her second novel, Dead Drop, is a fast-paced, intelligent thriller that exposes the undercover world of art heists, taking you on a roller-coaster ride through Vienna’s renowned galleries and museums. Her short story collections, My Brother Was a Kangaroo and A Place of Unfinished Sentences, include award-winning stories placed in competitions and published worldwide.

Malby's poetry has appeared in various journals, magazines and podcasts. She is a contributor to five print anthologies published by National Flash Fiction Day Press, Pens of the Earth, Reflex Press, Unthank Books, and Litro Press, alongside Pulitzer prize winner, Anthony Doerr.

She has travelled widely, teaching English in the UK and abroad. Malby has also worked as a portrait and landscape photographer, and is a qualified teacher, graduating with a double first in Geography and Education. She holds an MA in Theology and is a reader for writing competitions.

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