Author Biography
Hilary Coyne is a Scottish writer who lives in Oxford. After 20 years working in the public sector in Edinburgh and at Oxford University, Hilary began writing fiction in 2020. Her short stories and flash fiction have been published by The Scottish Arts Trust, Cranked Anvil, Swoop Books, Glittery Literary, Soor Ploom Press and Fudoki Magazine. She won the History Through Fiction Short Story Contest 2024 and in 2023 she was a finalist in the Edinburgh Short Story Award and the Retreat West Flash Mentoring Prize and was longlisted in the Historical Writers’ Association Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition.
In 2026 Hilary completed the first draft of a dual timeline novel set in Oxford, Ireland and Scotland, which features an ancient yew tree and a mystery spanning nearly two hundred years.
