Cathleen Davies is a twenty-three year old writer from East Yorkshire. At eighteen, she was published in Ace Jackson’s Red Ink Anthology, 'Rites of Passage; Rights of Womanhood: Volume One.' Davies completed the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing BA in 2016, then travelled to China to live and teach EFL for a year. She finished her Creative Writing MA at the University of Birmingham in 2018. Now, she continues to teach English and write in the Basque Country, north of Spain. Her hobbies include live music and constant self-deprecation. She has previously been published a handful of times, twice in UEA undergraduate anthologies: Underworld (2014) and Undertow (2016). Her short-storiws 'Respite' and 'Untitled (Self-Portrait with Blood) were published by Storgy magazine. Her poetry resides in The Confessionalist Zine's first issues, and her story ‘Time’s Up’ appears in Dostoyevsky Wannabes collection Love Bites. She was shortlisted for the Benedict Kiely Prize in 2019.