Holly Dawson is a writer, editor and creative writing tutor. Since 2018, she has been Reader-in-Residence at Charleston, where she gets to indulge her passion for Virginia Woolf and Modernist literature. Her acclaimed plays, drawing on Bloomsbury diaries and letters, have been performed by actors including Helena Bonham Carter, Jonathan Pryce, Miranda Richardson, Joanna Scanlon and Tobias Menzies. She runs the Charleston Life Writing programme and been involved with various festival workshops and events.

Her first book, All Of Us Atoms, will be published in May 2025 by Canongate. Her BBC feature about home received more than three million reads and led to a radio documentary, while her writing has been published elsewhere in Watermarks, Short Fiction, Field, Panorama and The Chap. She is a researcher for Letters Live and has worked with commercial clients including IKEA, Timberland, the Bloomsbury Club, Berry Bros & Rudd, and most of London’s luxury hotels.

As an editor, she supports writers of all genres to shape and polish their work to gain agents, publishers and audiences.

Having grown up in Cornwall, she now lives in rural Sussex with far too many hens.