Kate Pullinger — The Mistress of Nothing.

Kate Pullinger writes fiction for both print and digital media. Her most recent book is A Curious Dream: Collected Stories (Canada 2011); her novel is The Mistress of Nothing won the GG, Canada's Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, 2009. Other books include A Little Stranger (2006), Weird Sister (1999) and the short story collection My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison (1997). Pullinger's many digital fiction projects include her multiple award-winning collaboration with Chris Joseph on 'Inanimate Alice', a multimedia episodic digital fiction – www.inanimatealice.com – and 'Flight Paths' – www.flightpaths.net – a networked novel. Kate Pullinger is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University; she lives in London. www.katepullinger.com.