Rebecca Hannigan has an MA in Creative Writing Crime Fiction from University of East Anglia, graduating in 2023. She won the UEA/Little Brown Crime Prize for her dissertation. She has also been shortlisted for Virago/The Pool's Best New Crime Writer. Born in England to Irish parents, she now resides in Essex with her husband, cat, and a variety of increasingly cat-battered houseplants. Darkrooms is her debut novel.