Stella Duffy has written thirteen novels, fifty short stories, and ten plays. The Room of Lost Things and State of Happiness were both longlisted for the Orange Prize, and she has twice won Stonewall Writer of the Year. She adapted her novel State of Happiness for feature film with Zentropa/Fiesta, and HBO have optioned both of her Theodora novels for a TV mini-series. She has twice won the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2002 and 2013. Her collected short stories, Everything is Moving, Everything is joined is published by salt.
Stella is also a theatre-maker, an Associate Artist with Improbable, and artistic director of Shaky Isles Theatre. She is the founder and Co-Director of Fun Palaces - www.funpalaces.co.uk