Rebecca F. John

[2] Rebecca F. John was born in 1986, and grew up in Pwll, a small coastal village in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

[3] John's first solo publication was Clown's Shoes, a collection of short fiction published by Parthian Books in 2015.

A month before publication, one of the stories that would be included in the collection – 'Moon Dog' – won the PEN International New Voices Award at a ceremony in Quebec.

The first was The Empty Greatcoat, a fictional reimagining of John's great-great uncle's experiences of the First World War.

[5] The second was a novella – Fannie – a feminist reimagining of the story of Fantine, the young grisette from Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.