Mary Thompson lives in London, where she works as a freelance teacher. Her work has been shortlisted, longlisted and published in various journals and competitions including Flash 500, Fish Short Memoir, Writing Magazine, Retreat West, Reflex Fiction, Flashflood, Ellipsis Zine, the Cabinet of Heed, Memoir Mixtapes, the Fiction Pool and Marauder Literary Journal and Fictive Dream, and is forthcoming at Ink in Thirds, Firewords, Spelk and Funicular Magazine.