Anna Mazzola

Anna Mazzola is a writer of historical crime fiction. Her acclaimed debut novel, The Unseeing is based on the life of a real woman called Sarah Gale who was convicted of aiding a murder in London in 1837. The Unseeing, was published in July 2016 in the UK, and will be published in February 2017 in the US.

Anna has also written and published several short stories. She is currently working on a second historical crime novel about a collector of folklore and fairy tales on the Isle of Skye in 1857.

Anna studied English at Pembroke College, Oxford, before becoming a criminal justice solicitor. She began writing after taking a creative writing course with Literary Kitchen and later attended the Novel Studio at City University. She is represented by Juliet Mushens at the United Talent Agency.

She lives in Camberwell, South London, with two small children, two cats, one husband and a lot of books.