Bella Mackie's debut novel How to Kill Your Family was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and spent forty-seven weeks in the top ten in paperback. She is also the author of one work of nonfiction, Jog On, which was a Sunday Times bestseller as well, and has written for the Guardian, Vogue, and Vice. In 2023 she judged the Women's Prize for Fiction, and her work has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Mackie lives in London.