Cailean Steed
Please see below for a variety of bios and a selection of high-resolution author photos (taken by the wonderful Julie Broadfoot).
Bio - 50 words
Cailean Steed is a writer, teacher and dog owner who lives near Glasgow with their husband and son. Their debut novel, Home, was published by Bloomsbury Raven in 2023. Their second novel, The Mirror Halls, will be published in 2026.
Cailean’s short fiction has been published by New Writing Scotland, Boudicca Press and Barren Magazine.
Bio - 100 words
Cailean Steed is a writer, teacher and dog owner who lives near Glasgow with their husband and son. Their debut novel Home was published by Raven Bloomsbury in 2023, and their second novel, The Mirror Halls, will be published in 2026 by John Murrays and Little, Brown.
Cailean’s short stores have been published in anthologies such as New Writing Scotland 36: With Their Best Clothes On, and Boudicca Press’s Disturbing the Beast: an Anthology of Weird Fiction by Women. Their audiodrama RealBoy was the winner of the 2020 Pen to Print Audioplay Award.
Bio - 200 words
Cailean Steed is a writer, teacher and dog owner who lives near Glasgow with their husband and son.
Cailean’s debut novel, Home, was published by Raven Bloomsbury in 2023. It’s a read-in-one-gulp thriller about a young woman’s desperate attempt to rescue her sister from the cult they both grew up in, and is about memory, belonging, and finding your true home. Their second novel, The Mirror Halls, is a grounded fantasy about drowned villages, secret societies, and the power of dreams and stories. It will be published in 2026 by John Murrays and Little, Brown.
They have also written a number of short stories, which have appeared in anthologies such as New Writing Scotland 36: With Their Best Clothes On, and Boudicca Press’s Disturbing the Beast: The Best of Women’s Weird Fiction. Their short story Blind Baggage was longlisted for the 2017 Bare Fiction Prize, and later appeared in Barren Magazine.
Cailean also writes audio dramas, and was the winner of the 2020 Pen to Print Audioplay Award with their sci-fi drama RealBoy, a futuristic retelling of Pinocchio.