Angharad Hampshire is a journalist and academic, who has worked as a radio producer for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service in London, honorary lecturer in journalism at the University of Hong Kong, and regular contributor to the South China Morning Post. She has a Doctor of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Sydney. Angharad lives with her family in York, where she works as a lecturer in creative writing at York St John University. Her debut The Mare was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2025. ‘An extraordinarily powerful debut’ The Times. ‘A landmark book’ Rory Clements.