Grace Murray

Grace Murray was born in 2003 and grew up in Norfolk. She read English Literature at Edinburgh University, where she found time to write between her studies and two part-time jobs. She features in the Sunday Times Young Power List 2026, and her short fiction has been published in The London Magazine.
Blank Canvas was written over the course of a year as part of WriteNow, Penguin Random House’s flagship mentorship scheme for emerging talent. Grace Murray won one of nine places on the scheme on the exceptional strength of her writing, selected from a pool of over 1,300 applicants.