Our Writers
Our directory will help you find any writer, past or present, who has worked as an RLF Fellow. Learn more about their career, how they work with us, and where they operate in the UK. You can also find any articles they may have written for us through their profiles.
David Rain
David Rain was a novelist whose work included The Heat of the Sun (2012), which tells the story of ‘Trouble’,…
Anna Ralph
Anna Ralph (aka Barker) is an award-winning novelist and journalist. Her first novel The Floating Island (Arrow, 2008) won a…
Chitra Ramaswamy
Edinburgh
I am the author of two nonfiction books and a journalist with twenty years’ experience. My first book, Expecting: The…
Ravi Randhawa
Ravinder Randhawa is a highly regarded writer of novels and short stories whose work has been translated into several languages.…
Tessa Ransford, OBE
Tessa Ransford was an established poet, translator, literary editor, reviewer and cultural activist on many fronts for over 40 years,…
Leila Rasheed
Leila Rasheed is a widely published author of children’s fiction. For over fifteen years, she has taught Creative Writing and…
Jini Reddy
Jini Reddy is an award-winning writer and journalist. She is the author of Wanderland (Bloomsbury, 2020), shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for…
Siân Rees
Siân Rees is a writer of historical non-fiction. Her first book The Floating Brothel, about a shipful of female convicts…
Katy Regan
Katy Regan is a novelist and journalist with a special interest in underrepresented voices and stories. Her latest novel How…
John Retallack
John was born in Oxford and, after a long spell in London, now lives in the city with his wife,…
Anna Reynolds
Anna Reynolds is a playwright, fiction writer, drama writing coach, editor, mentor, writing facilitator and arts project producer. She has…
Kate Rhodes
Kate Rhodes is an acclaimed crime writer and poet. She completed a PhD on the American dramatist Tennessee Williams at…
Lucy Ribchester
Lucy Ribchester is a novelist and short-story writer based in Edinburgh. She has written three historical crime fiction novels exploring…
Dan Richards
Dan Richards is an acclaimed non-fiction writer specialising in art, travel and adventure. His first book, Holloway – co-authored with…
Marnie Riches
Marnie Riches grew up on a rough estate in north Manchester. Exchanging the spires of nearby Strangeways prison for those…
Gillian Richmond
Gillian Richmond is a television, stage and radio dramatist who grew up on army bases around the world. The Last…
Beau Riffenburgh
Beau Riffenburgh is a biographer and historian of exploration. His book Nimrod (2004), the thrilling tale of Ernest Shackleton’s first…
Gwendoline Riley
Gwendoline Riley is a novelist and short-story writer. Her short, sharp novels are written in the first person and the…
Mary-Jane Riley
Mary-Jane Riley is the bestselling author of four crime novels published by Harper Collins. They feature the journalist Alex Devlin…
Maurice Riordan
Maurice Riordan has published collections of poems including, A Word from the Loki (Faber, 1995) and Floods (Faber, 2000). He…
Harry Ritchie
Harry Ritchie is a writer and literary journalist. He has written two novels – Friday Night Club (Hodder, 2002) and…
Sol B River
Sol B. River is an acclaimed playwright, film-maker and producer having completed an MA in scriptwriting before taking up various…
Katherine Roberts
Katherine Roberts won the inaugural Branford Boase award for her first novel Song Quest (Element, 1999), which launched her career…