Biography

Carless-Frost is a queer writer & filmmaker. Their work explores themes of haunting, trauma, queer identities, and ecological preservation. They are the writer-director of Out of the Peat, an ecological horror short film supported by the BFI Network Film Fund and made in collaboration with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust. Shot on black-and-white Super 16 film, the project intertwines the discovery of "bog bodies," the othering of queer bodies, and the environmental urgency of peatland restoration. They are also a doctoral researcher in Creative Writing at Brunel University, supervised by Booker Prize winner Professor Bernardine Evaristo.