She wrote her undergraduate thesis on retold fairytales, and her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

The collection was shortlisted for the 2014 Green Carnation Prize for LGBT Writers, and also won the 2015 Polari First Book Prize (awarded each year to a writer whose debut work explores the LGBT experience), the 2013 Scott Prize for Short Stories, The Herald: Book of the Year 2014 and the 2014 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection.

[2] In 2013 the Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) selected Logan to be the recipient of Creative Scotland's first Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship,[7] to enable her to produce a collection of short fiction inspired by Scottish folklore.

In 2015 the resulting book, A Portable Shelter, was published in limited edition hardback by ASLS.

festival, where she read an extract from her debut novel, The Gracekeepers,[12] and appeared as the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award winner at Morningside Library in Edinburgh as part of Book Week Scotland.