About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Freelance Writer, Editor and Proofreader
Location	Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Introduction	I am a freelance writer, editor and proofreader with over 16 years’ experience in the fields of medicine, science and technology. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts degree and Doctorate in Zoology from the University of Oxford, I joined The Medicine Publishing Company Ltd (now an imprint of Elsevier Health Sciences) in 1994, working as a Staff Editor on medical education and marketing publications. In 1998, I was promoted to the role of Managing Editor of the journal Medicine, a post I held until I started my own editing and proofreading business in 2006. I began freelance writing in 2009, as a Contributing Writer for the online magazine Suite101.com. I am now Feature Writer in General Medicine for Suite101 and a regular contributor to other sites. I am currently studying for a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics with the Open University, specializing in Cosmology and Quantum Physics. I also write fiction, and when I find the time I like to blog on the freelance life, sport, writing and anything else that takes my fancy. I live in Abingdon on Thames, a small Oxfordshire market town, with my husband and three cats.
Interests	cats, animal rights, veganism, speciesism, gardening, particle physics, quantum physics, cosmology, Ancient Egypt, mythology, history, football
Favorite movies	Inception, Cleopatra, Quatermass and the Pit, The Matrix, The Poseidon Adventure, Orphee
Favorite music	80s Music, Evanescence, Linkin Park, Muse, The Prodigy, Papa Roach, Mansun, Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, Ennio Morricone, Movie soundtrack, The Planets by Gustav Holst
Favorite books	Cosmos by Carl Sagan, Messiah by Gore Vidal, The Helliconia Trilogy by Brian Aldiss, Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock, The Devil's Apocrypha by John a De Vito, Watership Down by Richard Adams, Molecular Biology of the Cell by Bruce Alberts