The daughter of an itinerant army intelligence officer, I studied Physiology at University and did Medical Research before starting a family. As well as living with my parents in Germany and Austria I have travelled widely, living in Jamaica for two years and France for six. I have run a pub, two restaurants and for many years I had a soft-furnishing business.
At school I took liberties with the classics to adapt into plays for my classmates. More recently my work has been published in The Lady, Cat magazine and craft publications. I’ve won several local short story competitions and was a runner up in the national Wrekin Writers’ competition in 2010 and 2011 and shortlisted in a Writing Magazine competition in 2011 and runner-up in their children’s poetry competition this year. I was second as well as a runner up in a Flash fiction competition last year. I like to try a bit of everything!