Wendy Erskine's debut short story collection, Sweet Home, was published by The Stinging Fly Press and Picador. It was shortlisted for The Republic of Consciousness Prize and The Edge Hill Prize, and longlisted for The Gordon Burn Prize. It won the Butler Literary Prize and was optioned for TV.  Her new collection, Dance Move, will be published in 2022 by Stinging Fly and Picador. Her fiction and non-fiction has also been published by Repeater, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Faber & Faber, Tangerine Press, No Alibis Press and Rough Trade Books. She hosts a show on Soho Radio for Rough Trade Books and is a full-time secondary school teacher.