I’m Cecil Fenn–a writer, designer, and digital creative. Originally from New York, I worked in music studios, theatres, and funeral homes before settling my creative practice in London. I’ve studied creative writing at the Pratt Institute and Trinity College Dublin, and attended the Tin House and Granta Short Story workshops. My short fiction has been shortlisted for the Aurora Prize.
The themes in my work are often dark, but centered around human connection. Whether literary or speculative, hope or horror, my writing explores anxieties around the body. In my stories, you’ll find the strangeness of embodiment in all its beauty and abjectness: death, illness, sex, physical connection, queerness, and the ways we can find meaning in a world we only experience through our limited senses.