Leife Shallcross is a hopeless fairy tale tragic. Her debut novel, The Beast’s Heart, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2018 after being selected for publication from a field of 1445 manuscripts in Hodder’s 2015 open submissions window. Her short fiction has been published in Aurealis, Daily Science Fiction and several anthologies and she picked up the 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story. She also co-edited the 2018 anthology A Hand of Knaves from CSFG Publishing with Chris Large.