Moira Buffini is is an English author, dramatist, director, and actor. Her works include the critically acclaimed and BAFTA-nominated The Dig, Jane Eyre; Byzantium , Dinner , and the Olivier Award Winner Handbagged . Buffini was co-creator and showrunner of the TV series Harlots , and a founding member of the Monsterists, a group of playwrights who promote new writing of large scale work in the British theatre. Songlight was Buffini's debut novel and was Winner of the YA Book Prize. It has sold in 17 countries, and The Torch Trilogy is now in development as both a TV series and theatre production. Buffini was born in England, to Irish parents, and schooled in Wales. In 2014 she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Buffini currently lives in London.