I am forty-four years old, and have been writing poems, short stories and
children's stories for a long time, really since childhood. Nine years ago I fell
and hurt my back, and I began to write poems to take my mind off the
constant pain of arthritis which I now suffer. When I had to finish work 5
years ago I started to send my poems to competitions and have had several
accepted and published in anthologies (for instance raising
money for Dr Barnardo's Homes and for the Rwanda appeal). I had a children's
story published when I was only twenty-years old years old, called "Harriet the
Hedgehog," in a children's annual. My ambition is
to have a full length book published, not only one for children, but, I
would like to write for adults too. I am married, and have been for almost
twenty-five years, and have two children, aged eighteen and twenty-one. (October, 1999)
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