I’ve been writing off and on since I was nine, producing my first novella at this time; the book found its way back to me when I was in my late twenties after my teacher’s retirement. He had kept it for twenty years, and seeing it again reminded me that I’d always wanted to write.

Since then I have published short stories in commercial and literary magazines and completed two novels; the first was my ‘practice’ novel How to Hide an Elephant, which will probably never see the light of day, and my second, a psychological thriller called Bone Lake, which I wrote for my MA,and which is currently going out to agents. I am now writing another book about a girl who’s been kidnapped and freed. It’s working title is Cells.

I also very much enjoy reading and writing poetry. Mine has appeared in The Rialto and various anthologies, including A Complicated Way of Being Ignored, Spokes, Matter and The Garden.

Work has also appeared online, including in the poetry journal Antiphon. In 2013 I won the Leeds Poetry Peace Prize, and have previously been longlisted for the Bridport Prize.

Last year I received my MA in Creative Writing from Sheffield Hallam University. Extracts from Bone Lake, were published in The Best of MA Writing and Matter.

I’ve appeared with the Leeds Writers’ Circle at the Ilkley Literature Fringe Festival, and also delivered workshops with the Cutting Edge Poets, a Sheffield-based group, at the Off the Shelf Festivals in 2013 and 2014, as well as hundreds of other workshops in various locations.

Please feel free to get in touch with me to discuss commissions or workshops- email me at suzanne@lifefantastic.co.uk