Heidi Hinda Chadwick is a writer, performer, and a Trauma-Informed Educator & Artist, based in Manchester, UK. She writes short stories, novellas, and essays exploring the macabre, and the psychological intricacies of human experience, often drawing on folklore, psychology, body horror, femgore, twisting traditional fairytales and exploring contemporary anxieties.

She adores the dark feminism of Mona Awad, Bora Chung, Sayaka Murata, Mariana Enriquez and Ottessa Moshfegh. Think ordinary people in odd worldly situations.

Her debut novella, The Story of the Deer Woman, is forthcoming in February 2026 via Lemon Jelly Press and has been shortlisted twice. She’s been published in Agave, SheHub, Conscious Dancer, GoDates, The Solitude Diaries, and Elephant Journal, where she is also a writing mentor. She has contributed to The Covid Life Book and The Journaling Book (Routledge) and writes regularly on Substack.

She is also a Tarot reader.