Victoria Hayward is a trained historitor who spent her youth serving as an acolyte in a Games Workshop store. She writes about black holes and the palaces of despots in her day job as a science communicator and her favourite corners of the 40K universe are those occupied by the Inquisition – which is all of it. Her work for Black Library includes the Warhammer 40,000 novel Deathworlder, and the short stories ‘The Siege of Ismyr’ and ‘The Carbis Incident’. She resides in Nottingham, where she keeps birds and practises printmaking.