Steph Lay graduated with merit from the Open University’s MA in Creative Writing and now writes strange and haunting stories from life's eerier edges. She is fascinated by the folk horror potential underlying the redways of Milton Keynes, and shares its dark stories at http://cityofsecrets.blog. Her flash fiction has been published in three of Milton Keynes Literary Festival’s anthologies. Her micro-memoir was published in the Five Minutes magazine where she was also a guest reader in 09/2024.