Words: Apife Casby and Andrea Mason (@aoifecasby @andreaemason)

About Andrea Mason and Aoife Casby

Andrea Mason (@andreaemason)is a writer and artist based in London. Her fiction pamphlet Waste Extractions, was published in 2022 with Broken Sleep Books. She is Runner Up in the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, 2023, won the Aleph Writing Prize, 2020, was shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, 2020, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, 2018. Journal and anthology publications include 22 Fictions (ed. Kate Ellis & Robert Loyko-Greer), Cybernetics, or Ghosts? Stories from Myth to A.I., (ed. Michael Salu), Eleven Stories, UEA New Writing, 3:AM Magazine, Failed States, Tar Press, The Happy Hypocrite and Frozen Tears. 

Aoife Casby lives on the west coast of Ireland. She practices as a writer, editor and visual artist. Her short fiction appears in Winter Papers, volume 10, The Stinging Fly, Dublin Review, and others. She is currently finishing a novel and a collection of short fiction. (www.aoifecasby.net / Instagram: @aoifecasby)