Heather Tweed is an artist, writer and researcher with a particular obsession for forgotten Victorian lives. She has a habit of falling over extraordinary people in old books and obscure corners of the archive and refusing to let them disappear again. Her subjects tend to be women and outsiders who operated at the edges of Victorian society, performers, showfolk, the overlooked and the deliberately erased. She falls into the gaps in the historical record and comes up for air with evidence, believing that absence can be as telling as presence. A member of the Society of Authors, the Royal Historical Society and the British Music Hall Society, she has written for the Public Domain Review, Ripperologist Magazine, Historians Magazine and Discover Your Ancestors, and is currently at work on a narrative non-fiction book about a forgotten Victorian performer.