About

Short Bio (75 words)

Lyndsey is a Scottish author published in over eighty magazines and anthologies, including Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, and Mslexia’s Best Women’s Short Fiction. She’s a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award Finalist, and former Hawthornden Fellow. Her longer works include Have You Decided on Your Question (Shortwave), Limelight and Other Stories (Shortwave) The Girl With Barnacles for Eyes (Split Scream Volume Five, Tenebrous Press), and Dark Crescent (Luna Press).

She is represented by Michael Mungiello at InkWell Management for literary work, and for film/TV by Sean Berard at Untitled Entertainment.

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Long Bio

Lyndsey is an Edinburgh-based author of strange and speculative fiction. She is a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award Finalist, Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant Recipient, and former Hawthornden Fellow. Her short fiction and essays have been published in over eighty magazines and anthologies, and have placed or been shortlisted in several competitions including with Mslexia, British Fantasy Society, Apex Magazine, the Cymera Fest Prize for Speculative Fiction, Escape Pod, and Fractured Lit. Her debut two-part audio drama ‘Daughter of Fire and Water’ was released in 2021 with the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities podcast and was a BFA-finalist for Best Audio in 2022. Her novelette Have You Decided on Your Question (2023) and her debut collection of dark science fiction stories Limelight and Other Stories (2024) are published by Shortwave Publishing. Her eco-horror novelette The Girl With Barnacles for Eyes was published in 2024 in Tenebrous Press’ Split Scream Volume Five, and is nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her second collection of dark Scottish folklore-inspired tales, Dark Crescent was published by Luna Press Publishing in 2025. She is currently working on a number of longer projects in the science fiction, horror, and eco-fiction space.

In 2019, she co-founded Edinburgh Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers and feels fortunate to have such an active literary scene on her doorstep. Her writing is influenced by her professional background in climate and nature policy as well as her experience growing up in remote places.

She has also edited a number of projects including ‘Ghostlore: An Audio Fiction Anthology’ and Shoreline of Infinity Magazine’s Climate Change Special.