Madeline Miller writes mythological fiction grounded in her training in Classics at Brown University, where she earned both her BA and MA. Her debut novel The Song of Achilles won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2012, and her second novel Circe was shortlisted for the same prize in 2019. In Galatea, she returns to Ovid's Metamorphoses to give voice and agency to the sculptor's wife — the silent, unnamed figure at the heart of the Pygmalion myth.