Karline Smith

Karline Smith is an award-winning writer and one of the first Black female crime novelists to address the subject of drug gangs in inner-city Britain. Her short story ‘Ezekiel’s Valley’ won the Vera Bell Prize. She is the author of three novels, Moss Side Massive, which was dramatised by Liverpool’s Unity Theatre, Full Crew, and Goosebumps and Butterflies are Fairy Tales (published by Black Sapphire Press). She is also the author of several short stories, variously published in The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories (Penguin), M.O.: Crimes of Practice, and Resist (Comma). She is currently working on her fourth novel.