M.H. Ayinde was born in London’s East End. She is a runner, a chai lover, and a screen time enthusiast. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in FIYAH Literary Magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, and elsewhere, and she was the 2021 winner of the Future Worlds Prize for her novel A Shadow in Chains. She lives in London with three generations of her family and their Studio Ghibli obsession.