Aliya Whiteley

1974–

Aliya Whiteley was born in Barnstaple, North Devon, and grew up in Ilfracombe. She studied theatre, film and television at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and later took a master's degree in library and information management at Northumbria University. Her first novel, Mean Mode Median, and her first published story both appeared in 2004. Her quietly unsettling fiction includes The Loosening Skin, set in a world where people shed their skins and their loves, and Skyward Inn, about two veterans of an interplanetary invasion who run a remote inn; both were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. She lives in West Sussex.

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