Candice Carty-Williams is a writer and author of the Sunday Times bestselling Queenie. Queenie has been described as 'vital', 'disarmingly honest', and 'boldly political', and won Book of the Year and Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2020. It was longlisted for the Women's Prize, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones, Foyles and Goodreads Book of 2019, as well as selected as the Blackwell's Debut of the Year. In 2016, Candice created and launched the Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, the first inclusive initiative of its kind in book publishing. Candice was the Guardian Review Books Columnist for 2019-2020 and has written for Guardian, i-D, Vogue International, every iteration of the Sunday Times, BEAT Magazine, Black Ballad and more. She will probably always live in South London.
