I’m an award winning writer and my debut novel won a Northern Writers Award and Arts Council funding. His Dark Sun is a speculative psychological thriller, with a climate change theme. I’be had short stories and poetry published in several anthologies including Fish Publishing, Comma Press and Green Press. I’ve taught creative writing in a hospice setting, delivered a short story course with Comma Press and edited an anthology  published by Comma Press. I’ve had many careers, many addresses and some near death experiences. Like most creatives I am happiest when learning something new or writing something new. I have Lynch Syndrome, a genetic inherited disease, which makes me prone to cancer.  I’m currently writing short stories and have a second novel and memoir on the go, as well as a children’s mystery novel.  I  studied art therapy at Hertfordshire Art and Design College and have artwork in both public and private collections. I did an MA in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University where I began writing my debut novel. I excelled  at Maths at school but it never excited me the way art and writing did and I wrote a coming of age novel at age of ten. It got decluttered when we moved house and I’ve been a fully paid up hoarder ever since.