Lynda Clark

Lynda Clark is Lecturer in Creative Writing (Interdisciplinary Futures) at the University of Edinburgh, a writer of novels, short stories and interactive works. Her first novel Beyond Kidding (Fairlight Books, 2019) was optioned by Film4 and is in development. Her short story collection Dreaming in Quantum (Fairlight Books, 2021) draws on her interest in technology and includes ‘Ghillie’s Mum’ which won the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Europe and Canada and was shortlisted in the 2019 BBC Short Story Award. Prior to joining academia, Lynda worked as a bookseller and in the videogame industry as a writer and producer.