On the Bodies of Strangers by Hannah Stevens (Paperback)
- £12.00 (£6.00 EPUB)
- 138pp
- Published 07 July 2026. Pre-order now, and be the first to the receive the book when it is published!
Shortlisted for the W&A Working Class Writers’ Prize 2022. A collection of short stories linked by the theme of tattoos.
Our lives, our experiences and the people we encounter leave behind indelible marks. On the Bodies of Strangers explores marked lives and marked flesh. The stories in this collection are linked by a single thread: the tattoos of their protagonists, traces of experiences and meaning etched onto their skin.
These are stories about the chaos of ordinary lives, about people who are flawed, complicated, but always deeply human. From domestic abuse to unexpected friendship, mixing horror and hope, intimacies and lies, On the Bodies of Strangers explores the many ways we mark each other and ourselves as we deal with the complexities of human behaviour.
About Hannah Stevens
Hannah is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. In Their Absence, her debut collection of stories was published by Roman Books and was translated into Bulgarian by Ana Pipeva for Altera Press.
Her writing has featured in numerous anthologies including The Fairlight Book of Short Stories, High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories and Unthology 10: Fight or Flight. She is widely published in literary journals and magazines globally including Archer Magazine (Australia), Loose Lips (Canada), Litro Magazine, Idle Ink, Losslit, Necessary Fiction, Fictive Dream and TSS Publishing (all UK).
She is currently working on her third collection of stories and a crime detective novel inspired by her time living and working in Taiwan. She has undertaken writing residencies including in Yangon, Myanmar, The Literature and Translation House in Sofia, Bulgaria and the Taiwan Literature Base, Taipei.
Hannah is also an editor and creative events producer and has worked around the world on projects using writing and storytelling as tools for positive social change, partnering with the BBC, the British Embassy, Greenpeace and many others.