Victoria C. Roskams writes short fiction about the arts and the uncanny: exploring the strange lives and afterlives of artists and artworks. These stories have appeared in publications including Fiction on the Web, Jerry Jazz Musician, and Fatal Flaw Lit. Beyond fictional writing, Roskams pursues academic research in writing about music, especially the intersections of fictional and non-fictional writing, with a focus on the nineteenth century. Roskams lives and works in Oxford.