Hollie Starling is a Lincolnshire-born writer working in London. She is the author of The Bleeding Tree: A Pathway Through Grief Guided by Forests, Folktales and the Ritual Year (Rider/Ebury 2023) and editor of and contributor to Bog People : A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror (Chatto & Windus, 2025). A non-fiction guide to the folk horror genre, The Careless Wanderer’s Handbook to Folk Horror, will be published by Batsford Books in 2027. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in various print and online publications. Hollie runs the page Folk Horror Magpie on social media.