Marion Arnott

Marion Arnott is a Scottish mystery, science fiction and fantasy writer. As well as writing, Arnott also works as an English and history secondary school teacher at St Andrew's Academy.
She won the Crime Writers' Association Short Dagger Award in 2001 with "Prussian Snowdrops" which focuses on a journalist who is sent to a remote part of Germany by the Nazis after making fun of the regime. She was also shortlisted for the award in 2002 for her short story "Marbles", and in 2003 for "Dollface".
Her fantasy short story, "The Little Drummer Boy", was nominated for the 2007 British Fantasy Award for best short fiction. The story focuses on Francis, a boy who is routinely beaten by his father, who discovers he can leave his own body at will and enter other people's.