Vicky Grut’s short fiction has been included in new writing anthologies published by Picador, Granta, Duckworths, Serpents’ Tail and Bloomsbury in the UK and by Harvard Review in the USA. One of her stories was translated into Mandarin for a dual language anthology published in China; another appeared in Best British Short Stories, 2019. She has worked in community arts, as a freelance book editor, and as a creative writing lecturer for the Open University, London South Bank University and the universities of Greenwich and Westminster. She reads for the manuscript critiquing agency The Literary Consultancy. Her collected stories were published by Holland Park Press and shortlisted for the Edge Hill Award. She is currently working on a collection of linked short stories.
Favourite reading includes:
Clear, Carys Davies; All Fours, Miranda July; Yes Yes More More, Anna Wood; My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh; Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet; The Iceberg, Marion Coutts; The Mare, Mary Gaitskill; Where I’m Calling From, Raymond Carver; The Windup Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami; Shipwrecks, Akira Yoshimura; Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro, On Chapel Sands, Laura Cummings.
Vicky Grut 