Tess Little is a writer, historian, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

She was born in Norwich and studied history at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She was previously an Examination Fellow at All Souls, where she completed a doctorate on 1970s feminist activism in the UK, US, and France.

Her short stories and non-fiction have appeared in various places, including Words And Women: Two, The Mays Anthology, The Belleville Park Pages, The White Review, and on posters outside a London tube station.

Her debut novel was published in October 2021 as The Last Guest (North America, Ballantine Books) and The Ninth Guest (UK, Hodder & Stoughton); it was first published in the UK as The Octopus.