Fiona Goggin grew up in the Medway Towns, childhood home of Charles Dickens. Her fascination with the Victorians began on a primary school trip to the local museum, after getting lost among the creepy dolls and the penny-farthings. A lifelong love of Victorian gothic novels followed, through university and beyond. She worked in the charity sector for a number of years before completing the Curtis Brown Creative Three-Month Novel-Writing course in 2021. Fiona lives in Kent with her husband, two daughters and a particularly enigmatic cat. She works as a library assistant in a local public library where she loves talking to fellow readers young and old, and everything in between. Fiona’s debut work, a Victorian gothic novel, The Silver Bones of Frances Winter, will be published by Everything With Words in September 2026.