Iris Downs is a British writer and former mental health nurse. Born in Portsmouth in 1986, she trained at King's College London and spent nine years on acute and forensic wards in the North East of England before completing a postgraduate diploma in archives and records management at the University of Dundee in 2015. Her short fiction has appeared in independent journals and on horror podcasts. She moved to Whitby in 2020, where she lives with a partner and a nervous whippet. When not writing, she restores antique medical cabinets and walks the East Cliff at dusk.
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