Nell Stevens is an award-winning author of memoir and fiction. Her work has been awarded the Somerset Maugham Award, longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted by the BBC National Short Story Award.
She is the author of two novels, The Original (coming summer 2025) and Briefly, a Delicious Life, and two memoirs: Bleaker House and Mrs Gaskell & Me.
Her writing is published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta and elsewhere. Nell is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.
Nell lives in Oxfordshire with her wife and two children.