Vivian Shaw wears way too many earrings and likes edged weapons and expensive ink. She was born in Kenya and spent her early childhood in the UK before relocating to America at the age of seven. Her debut trilogy is published by Orbit: STRANGE PRACTICE (2017), followed by DREADFUL COMPANY (2018) and GRAVE IMPORTANCE, forthcoming 2019. Her short fiction has appeared in Uncanny Magazine. In her spare time she draws, sews, makes jewelry, collects vintage cookbooks and fountain pens, and writes fanfiction (pen name: Coldhope). She lives in Baltimore with her wife, the author Arkady Martine.