F. C. Malby

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

Malby's poetry has appeared in various journals, magazines and podcasts, and her second collection of short stories, A Place of Unfinished Sentences, includes stories placed in competitions and literary magazines, along with new, unpublished work. She is a contributor to four print anthologies published by Pigeons Books for Pens of the Earth, Reflex Press, Unthank Books and Litro, alongside Pulitzer prize winner, Anthony Doerr. Her work will be published in a fifth anthology, forthcoming in June 2026 for National Flash Fiction Day.

Malby’s debut novel, Take Me to the Castle, won The People’s Book Awards. The book 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 debut short story collection, My Brother Was a Kangaroo, includes award-winning stories published worldwide.

She has travelled widely, teaching English in the Czech Republic, the Philippines and London. 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 also a reader for writing competitions.

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