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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	Writer
Introduction	Shortlisted Bath Short Story Award 2013 Runner-up Cinnamon Press Competition 2013 WNNER: Don Louth Writer of the Year (run by Reading Writers) WINNER: Bradt/Independent on Sunday Travel Writing Competition 2012. SHORTLISTED: Scott Prize (Salt Publishing) 2012 for a short story collection. Writer/ Journalist - assistant editor and writer for the art and books pages of Wolfprint. Most recently published in Independent on Sunday and short story anthologies: Sentinel Champions No 9, 100 Stories for Queensland, 50 Stories for Pakistan, 100 Stories for Haiti and From Hell to Eternity. In a recent writing competition, Joanne Harris described my writing as '...compelling (but quite creepy)'
Interests	The Art of chicken-keeping, Art in general and film
Favorite movies	Silent Running, In the Mood for Love, Wuthering Heights (1970), The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Paris Texas, The Moon in The Gutter, Betty Blue, A Matter of Life and Death, Sorry - Wrong Number, Black Narcissus, Waterloo Bridge
Favorite music	The Clash, Vintage Bowie (nothing by Tin Machine), Later Beatles, Eminem, The Streets, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Florence and the Machine, Leonard Cohen, The Psychedelic Furs, Mahler and the cello - it's the closest thing to the human voice
Favorite books	The Collected Works of John Donne, Helen Dunmore's The Siege, Anything by Flannery O'Connor, Turgenev's Father and Sons - in fact a large percentage of Russian authors, including the absurdist Gogol's collected works, Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jack London's The Call of The Wild, Huxley's The Island, Michael Moorcock's The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius, Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and A Handful of Dust, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Shakespeare's King Lear.

What would you name your ballet inspired by the sight of children leaping through a garden sprinkler?

The Droplet Infants