Rebecca Ferrier lives in Scotland, where she writes about difficult women, sickness and the sea. She first began drafting her novel as part of the All Stories mentorship scheme, which she completed with funding from Creative Scotland. Rebecca was the winner of the 2020 Emerging Writer Award. Recently, she has been awarded a PhD studentship in Creative Writing at Northumbria University, and is also a member of the Death Writes network, supported by The University of Glasgow Arts Lab. The Salt Bind is her first novel.