I’m an award winning writer and won a Northern Writers Award for my debut novel, His Dark Sun. A speculative psychological thriller, with a climate change theme, it was published by New Writing North through their inhouse press Moth publishing. I also received Arts Council funding to write His Dark Sun and have had short stories and poetry published in anthologies inc. Fish Publishing, Comma Press, Willesden Green Writing Group (winner of an Arts Coumcil Commuity Publishing Award). I’ve taught creative writing in a local hospice and delivered a short story course in conjunction with Comma Press, editing the anthology of short stories produced at the end of the course. I’ve had quite a nomadic life, had varied careers, addresses and interest. Like most creatives am happiest when I’m learning something new or writing someting new. I have Lynch Syndrome, a genetic inherited disease, which makes me prone to cancer. I’ve had a few and a currently living with my 4th which was incurable. Thankfully a clinical trial stopped its progressiona and allowed me to get back to writing. I’ve a WIP new novel, three short stories ready to sendoff and a part written memoir. I  studied art therapy at Hertfordshire Art and Design Collge and an MA in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University.  My best subject st school was Maths. I was good at it but it never thrilled me like writing did. I wrote my first book at the age of ten. A coming of age story it got lost when we moved house a few years later. My mother was not a hoarder and I suspect she threw it out. I’ve been a fully paid up hoarder ever since and would pass a bill prohibiting decluttering if I could.