Heather Parry is a Glasgow-based writer and editor, originally from South Yorkshire. Her debut novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. She is also the author of a short story collection, This Is My Body, Given For You, and her first nonfiction book, Electric Dreams: On Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism, was released in 2024 as part of 404 Ink’s Inklings series.
Her next novel, Carrion Crow, is forthcoming via Doubleday in Feb 2025, to be followed by a short story collection in 2026.
Heather writes the substack general observations on eggs, and lives in Glasgow with her partner and their cats, Ernesto and Fidel.