Edmund McKenzie enjoys offering little glimpses into the wider fleeting moments with a habit of writing stories where nothing at all really happens while everything happens. The need to create, to do something (anything!) burns through him like fire, leading him to the theatre, to spill out his heart across the page, to do something creative enough to soothe the soul. It is not always so easy to find the chance to do so whilst also studying at university, but sometimes one must play the starving artist to find satisfaction. Spooky, Australian, and trying to have fun.

McKenzie’s short story “The Woman in the Window“ appears in Not As It Seems: A Gothic Anthology (2025). Follow him on Instagram @tocreateandtolive.