Arendse Lund

Arendse Lund is an award-winning author whose fiction and poetry has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Shotgun Honey, and The Fabulist, among others. Her short story, "The Toll Bridge," won the 2021 Staunch Prize for horror writing, and Reactor Magazine readers voted "The Emergency Contact," as one of the best SFF stories of 2025.

She is currently a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Arnamagnæan Institute at the University of Copenhagen. She earned her doctorate researching medieval manuscripts and the law at University College London, and has taught classes and guest lectured at University College London, NYU, and the Arnamagnæan Institute.

In 2019, she was awarded the Association of British Science Writers’ top award for her work on Researchers in Museums.

She also curated an exhibition at Lambeth Palace Library, “Writing the Law: Lambeth’s Legal Manuscript Collection,” which ran from June-September, 2019, and served as a founding member of the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Membership Advisory Group.

She is currently working on her first novel.