Ally Wilkes is an LGBTQ English author of horror novels and short stories.[1] She also writes under the name A. V. Wilkes.[2] Wilkes studied law at the University of Oxford and practised as a criminal barrister for eleven years. She currently lives in Greenwich, London.[3]
Wilkes has published two novels, All the White Spaces (2022) and Where the Dead Wait (2023), both alternate historypolar exploration stories set in early twentieth-century Antarctica and nineteenth-century Arctic respectively.[2] She said she has always been fascinated by the early polar expeditions and "the unbeatable combination of harsh and deadly terrain, isolation, claustrophobia".[4]
Wilkes has also published several works of short fiction and is Book Reviews Editor for the British horror website, Horrified.[1][2][4]All the White Spaces was nominated for the 2022 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.[5]