Natasha Pulley is a British novelist, born in Cambridge in 1988 and raised in Soham. She studied at New College, Oxford, and the University of East Anglia, and spent time in Japan as a Daiwa Scholar, as well as in China and Peru.
Her debut, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015), set in Victorian London and Japan, won the Betty Trask Award; The Bedlam Stacks (2017) and The Lost Future of Pepperharrow share its world. Her later novels include The Kingdoms (2021), The Half Life of Valery K (2022), The Mars House (2024), The Hymn to Dionysus (2025) and The Salt King (2026).
She was the 2016 Gladstone Writer in Residence and teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University and the Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.
