Natasha Ali

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Natasha Ali is a biologist and author with an MSc in Human Molecular Genetics (Imperial College London) and a BSc in Biological Sciences (University of Durham) represented by Daisy Arendell at CAA. She aims to utilise her science background to write compelling speculative horror centred on bio-ethical issues. Natasha has previously been published in F(r)iction, Fusion Fragment, and was a finalist for the 2026 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction prize. When she isn't writing, she works at the Francis Crick Institute as a genomics researcher. She is a graduate of the 2024 Faber 'Writing a Novel' course, and her debut novel, Reasons I'm Not Human, will be published in July 2027.Contact: [email protected]

Works

Reasons I'm Not Human - 22/07/2027

Avid Reader Press (North America), Brazen (UK&Comm), PRH Grupo (Spain), Robert Laffont (France), Agave (Hungary), Medusa (Turkey)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle meets I Who Have Never Known Men in this blend of science fiction and gothic body horror.After helping her friend (and sometimes lover) Keira sabotage the unusual reproductive method on the deteriorating spaceship the Estate, Lila must avoid being forced into a pregnancy while searching for a now missing Keira, and learn why her friend thought it might be better if they didn't exist...Explores: artificial womb technology, genetic editing for long-form space travel, bio-ethics of human enhancement, reproductive rights, the pseudoscience of eugenics

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Parthenogenesis (& Other Nightmares)

A short story collection centring insect biology. All money earned from this project is donated to Buglife to help with the conservation of invertebrates.Successes so far:

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