Andrea is a Londoner, born and bred, which means that she enjoys the anonymity of big cities, and avoids making eye contact on public transport. She writes under the pen name A.L. Michael. Andrea decided to become a writer at age eleven, after the whole ‘secret agent thing’ fell through. She gained both a BARead more about Andrea Michael[…]
Jo Summers was made in Australia, but her mother, Pauline Kirk, just managed to get back to the UK before Jo was born. Having been whisked away to Yorkshire at 8, Jo grew up in the chilly outskirts of Leeds. She started working her way back down south at the age of 19, attending theRead more about Jo Summers[…]
Born in Birmingham, Pauline moved to York, having lived in Leeds, Reading, Benfleet (Essex), and Melbourne (Australia). She now lives in a village between York and Selby. She studied at the University of Nottingham, Sheffield University (managing to get married in the holidays) and Monash University in Melbourne where she also taught at the MethodistsRead more about Pauline Kirk[…]
PJ Quinn is the pen name of mother and daughter team Pauline Kirk and Jo Summers. Jo challenged her mother to write a crime novel and, somehow, ended up writing it with her. The result is a series of detective novels featuring DI Ambrose and Chalk Heath, set in the late 1950s, a period of great change that seems likeRead more about PJ Quinn[…]
Jackie boasts a few ancestors from Yorkshire, in addition to being Emily Dickinson’s seventh cousin, five times removed (but claims that her family tree has not helped her writing along one iota). From the time she was five years old until she was twenty-two, Jackie took barbiturates to quell a childhood seizure disorder. In the slightlyRead more about Jackie Simmons[…]
Late Flowering is a dramatic collection of poems and drawings by lecturer and artist Michael Hildred, who grew up in Selby during the war, sang in the Abbey choir, experienced first hand the Selby floods of 1947 and made a name for himself for his significant contributions to art education while Head of Art and Design inRead more about Michael Hildred[…]
The son of two ex-patriot Yorkshire folk, Tim grew up in a village in Berkshire. He first attempted writing as a guitarist in a teenage heavy rock band. Whether or not Tim’s efforts as a song-writer were contributory to the band’s subsequent collapse will never be known, but as a student in the Biochemistry DepartmentRead more about Tim Ellis[…]
John Walford was born in Anlaby to the west of Hull, that city north of the Humber which once boasted the only independent telephone exchange in Great Britain. After confounding his teachers by passing the 11+ and going on to Grammar School he had a plethora of jobs before he finally settled on a career asRead more about John Walford[…]
In 2015 John was appointed Editor of Dream Catcher Magazine, a prestigious international literary journal, ably following its founder, Paul Sutherland to edit a journal both profound and eclectic. John Gilham was brought up in Hounslow, West London, underneath the flight-path to Heathrow. He first began writing poetry in his teens, achieving a few magazineRead more about John Gilham[…]
N.E.David is the pen name of York writer Nick David. Nick was born in London in 1950 but went to school in the West Country. His worst mark at ‘O’ level was in English Literature and any suggestion that he would eventually become a published author would have been greeted with surprise if not derision.Read more about Nick David[…]
