Eliza Clark (British author)

Eliza Clark is a British author.

Career
Clark attended Chelsea College of Art. In 2019 she was working for Mslexia magazine. She worked for Arvon Foundation as a creative writing facilitator for young people. She runs a Twitter account, GoodreadsBazaar which is dedicated to "nonsensical Goodreads reviews."

In a New York Times interview in 2023, she spoke about being "really online", later telling The Independent that "the internet has been such a big part of my life but it’s taken years of work to disengage from it, and realise that it was actually a really negative influence".

In 2023 her second book was listed by The Independent in a discussion of recent novels using fiction to examine the true crime genre.

Publications
Clark has published two novels:
 * Boy Parts (2020) pub. Influx Press which has also been adapted into a play.
 * Penance (2023) pub. Faber and Faber

She had a short story She's Always Hungry published with Granta in 2023.

Awards and grants

 * 2018 - a recipient of a New Writing North Young Writers Talent grant. Her mentor was Matt Wesolowski.
 * 2020 - Boy Parts won Blackwell's Fiction Book of the Year
 * 2023 - one of ten recipients of the ''Women’s Prize x Good Housekeeping Futures authors, identified as one of "the most promising female authors under the age of 35 and under who are exciting, boundary-changing, and inspirational".
 * 2023 - named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists