Hello and thanks for stopping by at ejswift.co.uk

I’m a writer and novelist based in London. For as long as I can remember I’ve been making up stories, from the ridiculous to the epic. Most of my recent work has a science-fictional or fantastical element. I love reading and writing fiction which creates new worlds and I’m inspired by writers who bring the extraordinary to the ordinary.

I studied at the University of Manchester and later at Royal Holloway in London, where I completed the MA in Creative Writing in 2008.

My novel Osiris is a science-fiction piece set in a futuristic ocean metropolis whose inhabitants believe they live on the last city on earth, and is the first in a trilogy which will explore a world altered by climate change.

My first published story, The Complex, appears in the January/February 2012 edition of Interzone magazine (IZ238). I’m really thrilled to be part of a publication with such an incredible backlist of contributors!

I am represented by Zeno Agency (zenoagency.com).

Writing influences and loves

A small selection of a much longer list, the following always inspire: David Mitchell’s Number9Dream and Cloud Atlas; Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake; Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights trilogy, Alastair Reynolds’ House of Suns; any of Jeanette Winterson’s canon but The Stone Gods in particular; Neal Stephenson’s and Cormac McCarthy’s works. More recently I loved Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From The Goon Squad.