Beatrice Hitchman is an author and academic. Her first novel, Petite Mort, was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Polari Prize, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Prize and the HWA Debut Dagger, and was serialised as a Radio 4 Woman's Hour drama.

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Her second novel, All of You Every Single One, was nominated for the Polari Prize and the Historical Writers' Association Crown and published in the US.

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She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Brighton.