Vicky Grut’s short stories have appeared in new writing anthologies published by Picador, Granta, Duckworths, Serpent’s Tail and Bloomsbury. Her non-fiction essay ‘Into the Valley’ was mentioned in Best American Essays, 2013. Her short story collection, Live Show, Drink Included, was published by Holland Park Press in 2018. She is currently working on a creative non-fiction book that follows her Swedish grandmother from Paris and Stockholm in the 1920s, to Bangkok in the 1930s and Stalin’s Moscow in the winter of 1940.