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About the author

Sophie Hardcastle was born in 1993. She is an author, artist, screenwriter

and scholar. In 2018, she was a Provost's Scholar in English Literature at

Worcester College, at the University of Oxford, where she wrote Below

Deck. In 2017, Sophie was an artist-in-residence with Chimu Adventures

in Antarctica. Sophie is the author of the critically acclaimed Running Like

China (2015) and Breathing Under Water (2016). She is the co-creator, cowriter and co-director of the online series Cloudy River. Australian born,

she now lives in Oxford, England