Aifric Campbell is an Irish writer based in the UK. Aifric grew up in Dublin and moved to Sweden where she read Linguistics and lectured in Semantics at the University of Gothenburg. After 14 years in investment banking she decided to focus on the fiction she’d been writing since childhood. She received her PhD in Critical and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 2007 where she has also lectured. Her writing has won awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, a Thayer Fellowship at UCLA and various writing residences at Yaddo in New York. Aifric teaches at Imperial College, London and has previously taught at the Unversity of East Anglia and the University of Sussex. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, The Irish Times, ELLE, Tatler, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Business Post. Aifric spent 14 years at Morgan Stanley where she became Managing Director on the London trading floor.

She published three short fiction, The Book of Men, The Irish Times and  New Irish Short Stories, and three novels: The Semantics of Murder (2008), inspired by an unsolved murder of a brilliant mathematician in LA, The Loss Adjustor (2010) which tells the story of a woman who is haunted by the loss of her childhood friends and On the Floor, which was long listed for the Orange Prize 2012.

In 2012 she also wroto the voice over script for the movie C.K., inspired by the real life case of an Amsterdam accountant who embezzled 16 million euros and disappeared.