Alix Nathan was born in London and educated there and at the University of York where she read English and Music. She now lives in Shropshire on the border with Wales. In 2014 she published a collection of short stories, His Last Fire and in 2015 a novel, The Flight of Sarah Battle (both with Parthian Press). 2019 sees the publication of The Warlow Experiment with Serpent's Tail in the UK and with Doubleday in the US.