Angie Spoto is an American fiction writer and poet living in Edinburgh. In 2020, she completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. Her doctoral thesis was a fantasy novel, called The Grief Nurse, and a collection of essays on grief, madness and language. The Grief Nurse has been shortlisted for the First Novel Prize 2021 and The Bridge Awards Emerging Writer Award in 2020. 

 

The Grief Nurse was published in April 2023, and her second novel, The Bone Diver, was published in October 2024 and has been longlisted for The Saltires: Scotland's National Book Awards in the Fiction category.