Carole Morin was born in Glasgow and has published five critically-acclaimed novels described as “Lolita with a brain” Sunday Times and “Sylvia Plath with a sense of humour.” The Herald.  She was Literary Fellow at the University of East Anglia where she devised and taught her own course; later adapted for the British Council in Africa and China.  She was Associate Editor of Granta magazine and writer-in-residence at Wormwood Scrubs prison. She has contributed to many publications and had weekly columns in both the right of centre The Spectator and left of centre New Statesman. She has recorded an audio book and done many readings including South Bank Centre, Beijing Bookworm and live on radio and television. She has lived in New York, Kampala and Beijing and now lives in Soho, London.