Giselle Leeb grew up in South Africa and lives in Nottingham. Her short stories have appeared in over forty publications, including Best British Short Stories 2017 (Salt), Ambit, Mslexia, The Lonely Crowd, Litro, Black Static, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. She has been placed or shortlisted in competitions including the Ambit, Bridport and Mslexia prizes. She is an assistant editor at Reckoning Journal and a Word Factory Apprentice Award winner 2019. She was recently chosen to attend the David Higham Associates New Writers’ open week.
Twitter: @gisellekleeb

Dreamland: Other Stories anthology

I’m absolutely thrilled my short story, ‘Pain is a Liar’, has recently been published in the Dreamland: Other Stories anthology, edited by Sophie Essex,  published by Black Shuck Books.

Read more about it and order a copy here.

“These twenty-one stories from female-identifying writers embody the disconnect between reality and the subconscious, the desire for meaning and the need for escape, the too-blue sky and the abyss.

These are voices that embrace the topography of the other: the weird, transgressive, uncanny and strange. Voices that displace, unsettle and unnerve, that are subtly subversive in their power.”