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A Place of Unfinished Sentences, includes stories placed in competitions and literary magazines, along with new, unpublished work.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.

Malby’s debut novel, Take Me to the Castle, is set in the Czech Republic and won The People’s Book Awards. Her second novel, Dead Drop, set in Vienna, is a lyrical, daring thriller about the undercover world of art crime. 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. She has a first class joint honours degree in Geography and Education, is a qualified teacher, and has worked as a portrait and landscape photographer. She is also a reader for writing competitions, and has recently completed a master’s degree.

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