Polly Crosby grew up in Walberswick and now lives with her family in Norfolk. Her work is often inspired by the East Anglian landscape. Polly won Curtis Brown Creative’s Yesterday Scholarship and was runner-up in the Bridport Prize’s Peggy Chapman Andrews Award for her debut novel, The Illustrated Child. She received the Annabel Abbs Creative Writing MA Scholarship at UEA. Her second novel is The Unravelling (2022) and her latest is Vita and the Birds (2023). Read more about the influence of Suffolk on her work here. In January next year Polly will publish her first Young Adult book, This Tale is Forbidden, and later in 2024, her next historical adult book, The House of Fever.