Wiz Wharton was born in London of Chinese-European heritage. She is a prize-winning graduate of the National Film and Television School, where she studied screenwriting under filmmakers Stephen Frears, Mike Leigh, and Kenith Trodd. She and her work have been featured on various broadcast platforms, including radio and television, and in print. She was the 2020 winner of the Jericho Writers’ Self-Editing Your Novel Course Bursary and a finalist in the DHA New Writers’ Open Week. She currently divides her time between London and the Scottish Highlands.