![]() ![]() After welcoming Whiteley to our annual Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference (CRSF2022) at the University of Liverpool, I was eager to purchase her books and get lost in her narratives. ![]() ![]() I stumbled upon Aliya Whiteley’s 2019 novel, Skein Island, by pure chance. She has written over one hundred published short stories that have appeared in Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Strange Horizons, The Dark, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and The Guardian, as well as in anthologies such as Unsung Stories’ 2084 and Lonely Planet’s Better than Fiction. ![]() Her short story collection From the Neck Up was published in 2021. Published in 2020, her novels Greensmith and Skyward Inn have been works of speculative fiction. The following historical-SF novella, The Arrival of Missives, was a finalist for the Campbell Memorial Award, and her noir novel The Loosening Skin was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award. Her 2014 SF-horror novella The Beauty was shortlisted for the James Tiptree and Shirley Jackson awards. I hold her prisoner, and that is what she deserves”Īliya Whiteley writes across many different genres and lengths. ![]()
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