Hannah Mathewson

Hannah Mathewson was born in Cambridge, UK. She was raised in the city of Ely, then later in Norwich. Her untamed creative streak led her through acting, music, drawing, and a decade-long desire to make films, before she narrowed in on writing in her teens. Her first attempt at a novel was about a young woman who was visited by the ghost of her late best friend.

She studied Film and Television at the University of East Anglia, and worked in various jobs in cinemas, libraries, and archives while pursuing writing. She has won the Fiction Desk Writer’s Award for her short story Two Pounds, Six Ounces, which was published in their anthology Separations. Her flash fiction has been published online by The Molotov Cocktail. Witherward is her debut novel.