Camilla Cassidy

Camilla Cassidy is a writer of fiction and nonfiction, focusing on culture, history and literature. Her first novel won the Hachette New Writing North Children’s Novel Award 2025. Her work has been published in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Magazine, the Spectator, the Telegraph, Apollo Magazine, History Today, and Slightly Foxed Quarterly, among other places. Her first nonfiction book, The Ground Beneath Our Feet, won a Society of Authors K Blundell Award and is forthcoming from Reaktion Books.

Camilla earned a doctorate from Oxford University, researching nostalgia and historical fiction in the nineteenth-century novel. Her book based on this research, Twilight Histories, was published by Brill in 2023.