Abi Curtis is Professor of Creative Writing at York St John University, UK. She is the author of two poetry collections, Unexpected Weather and The Glass Delusion, and has been awarded both an Eric Gregory Award and Somerset Maugham Award. Her debut novel was Water & Glass, a speculative climate change story (2017). She was highly commended in both the Bridport, Alpine Fellowship and Fish Prizes in 2022 for three of her short stories. Abi has written critical pieces on the subjects of representations of maternity in speculative fiction, teaching creative writing, the uncanny and mushrooms in literature, and the giant squid. She has also been involved in multi-media creative projects on bees.