Sophie Coulombeau is a writer of prose fiction and nonfiction, whose work explores love, sex, friendship, motherhood, and the trickiness of memory. Her first novel, Rites (Route Publishing, 2012), won the Arts Council England Next Great Novelist Award, was translated into German for Kein & Aber, and was described by Philip Pullman as "Terrific. Intriguing, puzzling, and entirely gripping". She has received funding to support her work from the Society of Authors, New Writing North, and Arts Council England. She is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of York, where she researches and teaches English Literature and Creative Writing. As a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, she has presented or contributed to more than twenty features for BBC radio, and has written for the Guardian, the Independent, and the Times Literary Supplement.

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Monster: A Tale is coming April 2026