Gwendoline Riley (London, 1979) is the author of seven novels including First Love (2017) and My Phantoms (2021). She has been shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Women's Prize. In 2018, The Times Literary Supplement named her one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists writing today. In 2026 she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. Her latest novel is The Palm House.