Ally Wilkes
Ally Wilkes is an LGBTQ English author of horror novels and short stories. She also writes under the name A. V. Wilkes. Wilkes studied law at the University of Oxford and practised as a criminal barrister for eleven years. She currently lives in Greenwich, London.Wilkes has published two novels, ''All the White Spaces'' (2022) and ''Where the Dead Wait'' (2023), both alternate history polar exploration stories set in early twentieth-century Antarctica and nineteenth-century Arctic respectively. She said she has always been fascinated by the early polar expeditions and "the unbeatable combination of harsh and deadly terrain, isolation, claustrophobia".
Wilkes has also published several works of short fiction and is Book Reviews Editor for the British horror website, ''Horrified''. ''All the White Spaces'' was nominated for the 2022 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. Provided by Wikipedia
