Today, I am excited to spotlight Author Lorraine Wilson. A conservation scientist and third-culture Scot, Lorraine Wilson lives by the sea writing stories influenced by folklore and the wilderness. She has won the British Fantasy Award for her short fiction, and her debut novel, the dystopian thriller This Is Our Undoing, was a multi-award finalist. The Way The Light Bends, a dark folkloric mystery, was recently released, and her upcoming third book, Mother Sea, is an exploration of motherhood, climate change and belonging. She has been stalked by wolves and negotiated truces with tree frogs, runs the Rewriting The Margins mentorship scheme for marginalised writers. Cendrine Marrouat: Hello Lorraine! Thank you for being with us. How did you get started as a writer? Lorraine Wilson: I think like many authors, I’ve always been a bookworm, and I’d also always written poetry as a (mostly) private expressive outlet. But I only decided to try storytelling in prose form when I developed chronic illnesses that forced me out of my work as a research scientist. I needed something to focus on through that rather difficult time and creative writing felt like a very natural choice. Click here to continue reading the interview.