Roy V. Marshan is an emerging writer born in Scotland, UK, but currently based in Sydney, Australia. He previously had his first short-story collection, Where We Were, published with MMH Press. He has written, directed, and composed music for short films and live shows. In his personal life, Roy struggles with falling asleep, often staying up far too late, talking to his two rescue cats about various ideas for novels, screenplays, poems or plays. Writing Deprivation has been his way of anxiously immersing himself in the dreams and nightmares that sleep does not provide, but that the future seems to threaten.