Julya Oui is an internationally-respected author, a screenwriter, and a playwright. She has published five short horror story collections, written numerous features films and TV movie scripts, and a few stage plays. Her second book Here be Nightmares was long-listed in the Frank O\'Connor International Short Story Award 2015 and won the 3rd prize for Popular -The Star Readers’ Choice 2016. The story Best Kept Secret received an honourable mention from L. Ron Hubbard\'s Writers of the Future Contest 2015.