Hello and welcome to ejswift.co.uk.

About my work

My latest novel, THE CORAL BONES, is a work of eco-fiction connecting three women across the centuries by their love of the ocean, and is published by Unsung Stories. THE CORAL BONES was shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Best Novel, The Kitschies Red Tentacle and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year.

PARIS ADRIFT, a tale of bartenders, time travel and the City of Light, is published by Solaris.

The Osiris Project, a speculative fiction trilogy published by Del Rey UK and Jabberwocky (US), explores the geopolitical impacts of climate change. Book One, OSIRIS, is set in a future ocean metropolis, a failed utopia whose inhabitants believe they live on the last city on earth. The second book, CATAVEIRO, is set in South America, and expands the series to explore the world beyond Osiris. The series concludes with TAMARUQ.

My short fiction has appeared in Interzone magazine and in anthologies from Salt Publishing, Jurassic London, NewCon Press and Solaris, and has been translated into Chinese and Polish. My short story “Saga’s Children” (The Lowest Heaven, 2013, Jurassic) was shortlisted for a BSFA Award. You can read it online for free here. “The Spiders of Stockholm” (Irregularity, 2014, Jurassic) was longlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.

Representation

I am represented by Margaret Halton at PEW Literary.

Inspirations

I’m inspired by writers who find the extraordinary in the ordinary. The list below is just a few examples of writers and works I love:

Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin; Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum; Teju Cole’s Open City; Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From The Goon Squad; Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love; Angélica Gorodischer’s Kalpa Imperial; Sarah Hall’s The Wolf Border; Samantha Harvey’s Dear Thief; Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow; Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour; Kelly Link’s Pretty Monsters; Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian; David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas; Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Christopher Priest’s The Islanders, Alastair Reynolds’ House of Suns; Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future; Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven; Elif Shafak’s 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World; Lavie Tidhar’s Central Station; Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book.

When not writing

I’m an advocate of pole and aerial fitness, gardens and gardening.

[Image: Michael Leckie]