Laura Ellen Joyce is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her doctoral study was on "Forensic Reading: The Crime Scene from The Metamorphoses to Gone Girl". She was project co-ordinator of the AHRC funded Global Queer Cinema network in 2012-2013. She has published two crime novels: The Museum of Atheism (Salt: 2012) and The Luminol Reels (Calamari: 2014).