AVERY CURRAN is a writer and researcher. She has an M.A. in Victorian studies and a Ph.D. in spiritualism and queerness in the nineteenth century. In 2026, she was awarded the Margaret E. Harkness fellowship prize for her work on the spiritualist writer Lilian Whiting. Her first novel, Spoiled Milk, was released in the same year. She was born in New York City and currently lives in London with her partner and their cat.