Cecily Blench is a freelance writer and editor with a particular interest in travel writing, wartime history, intrepid women and Southeast Asia. She grew up in Herefordshire, attended the University of York, and now lives in London. She has written for a number of publications including Reader's Digest, Slightly Foxed, The London Magazine, and Hinterland. Her first novel won the 2019 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize and is under contract with Bonnier Zaffre.

Her first novel, The Long Journey Home, is a historical adventure set in Burma during the Second World War and will be published by Bonnier Books in June 2021. Her new novel, a WW2 espionage thriller, is being published by Bonnier Books in 2024.

She is currently writing a gothic Victorian mystery story.