Tara Calaby is an English-Australian writer and editor, living in Gippsland, Australia with their incredible wife and far too many books and DVDs. Calaby's doctoral research focused on the social worlds of women in Victorian lunatic asylums, which was the inspiration for their debut novel, House of Longing (Text, 2023). This was followed by The Spirit Circle (Text, 2025). Calaby's speculative and historical short stories have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies.
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