[2] She attended James Gillespie's High School and then University of Aberdeen.

[citation needed] In 2005, Innes moved to Glasgow to work at The Arches.

[2] Innes's debut novel, Fishnet (2019), won The Guardian's Not The Booker Prize in 2015[4] and was praised by The New York Times for its depiction of sex workers as "women with rich inner lives and interests".

[5] Innes has written about how her friendship with the sex workers' rights activist Laura Lee influenced the novel.

[1] The couple, who met in 2007, have discussed their experiences with IVF publicly with the aim of reducing the stigma around infertility.