Author guide
Eliza Clark is a British author from Newcastle upon Tyne. She is the author of the novels Boy Parts and Penance, and the short-story collection She's Always Hungry. Her fiction explores violence, gender, internet culture, true crime, and the body through literary, horror, and speculative modes. She was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2023.
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short-story-collection · First published 2024
A woman welcomes a parasite into her body. A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humor, Eliza Clark’s debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger.
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Clark's debut novel and earliest published book.
A standalone novel that showcases Clark's metafictional approach to true crime.
A standalone collection introducing Clark's short fiction and speculative body horror.
Outside the series
novel · 2020
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable…
novel · 2023
On a beach in a run-down seaside town on the Yorkshire coastline, sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson is set on fire by three other schoolgirls. Nearly a decade after the horrifying murder, journalist Alec Z. Carelli has written the definitive…
short-story-collection · 2024
A woman welcomes a parasite into her body. A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humor, Eliza…
Eliza Clark is a British author known for dark, unsettling fiction exploring gender, power, violence, and socially unacceptable subjects.
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Clark was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and now lives in London.
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She received support through New Writing North’s Young Writers’ Talent Fund, which helped her develop the work that became her first novel.
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Clark has described being influenced by true-crime podcasts, online research, internet culture, and her teenage interest in horror and the macabre.
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She was a finalist for the 2022 Women’s Prize Futures Award, and in 2023 she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.
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