Rebecca Audrey Johnson has always loved words. She was a bookworm as a child and her curiosity for foreign languages led her to travel widely working as a translator. She gained a PhD in Translation & Intercultural Studies before becoming an author. She now lives off-grid on a mountain in Northe
Read MoreRic Cheyney was born in Cambridge, England. For ten years he was a semi-pro singer/songwriter in the Cambridge area, supplemented by various jobs including bus driver and college gyp. Ric completed a BA (Hons) Literature degree at the University of Essex in 1983, and a PGCE diploma at the university
Read MoreHaving just retired from working more years than he cares to remember in the NHS, Richard Corney is left free to concentrate on playing the piano, writing, cycling and paragliding. Richard has always been writing, starting as a child. His first love has always been poetry, although he did try to
Read MoreRichard Salsbury is a novelist and short story writer based in Hampshire. His writing aims to strike a happy medium between literary and genre writing. He also plays the guitar, brews his own beer, and is an editor and the website designer for environmental writing project Pens of the Earth. Rich
Read MoreRichard Smyth is a writer and critic. His historical novel The Woodcock was published by Fairlight Books in July 2021. Richard’s work has appeared in The Guardian, The New Statesman and The Times Literary Supplement, and he is the author of five books of non-fiction. In between b
Read MoreRob McIvor grew up mainly in south Lancashire but now lives in Blackheath, south-east London, with his family and two unruly cats. He has some of his best ideas for stories while riding one of his four bikes, sometimes over ridiculously long distances. Unfortunately, as he has yet to master simultan
Read MoreRosalind Goldsmith lives in Toronto. She teaches evening classes in an adult literacy programme. During the day she drinks too much coffee, writes, reads, and usually manages to avoid cat videos on YouTube. Rosalind has written radio plays for CBC Radio Drama and a play for the Blyth Theatre Fest
Read MoreRosie Anderson was born in the West Midlands and has lived near Birmingham in a small village no one’s ever heard of all her life. Other than reading and writing, one of her greatest pleasures is babysitting four wonderful little girls. She completed her undergraduate degree in English Literature
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