Bryony Doran's first novel, The China Bird, won the Hookline novel competition in 2008 and was published in 2009, and followed in 2013 by her short story collection, The Sand Eggs. She has written and performed poetry for many years and completed an MA in Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. Her first collection, Bulletproof, is included in Home Front (with collections by Jehanne Dubrow, Elyse Fenton and Isabel Palmer), published by Bloodaxe Books in November 2016. Born in a youth hostel on Dartmoor, she grew up in Cornwall and studied fashion at Manchester before moving to Yorkshire. She lives in Sheffield with her partner Bill Allerton, who is also a writer, and has one son.