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Menna van Praag is the author of six magical realism novels: Men, Money & Chocolate (translated into 26 languages), The House at the End of Hope Street, The Dress Shop of Dreams, The Witches of Cambridge, The Lost Art of Letter Writing & The Patron Saint of Lost Souls, all set among the cafes and colleges of Cambridge. Her fantasy trilogy, The Sisters Grimm, Night of Demons and Saints and Child of Earth and Sky was published by Penguin 2020-23 and which The Guardian called “an intensely poetic narrative of empowerment and self-realisation”. She’s currently working on her first work of science fiction. Menna graduated with a First in Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford. While she specialises in speculative fiction, fantasy and magical realism she happily reads widely across all genres.
She was a Royal Literary Fellow (2022-23) and teaches both the Certificate and the Diploma at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education. She also teaches The History of the Novel for the MA in Creative Writing at ARU and was shortlisted for the "Masters Teacher of the Year” in 2022.
