WINNER Sabotage Best Spoken Word Performer 2014 Steve Nash is a stateless pirate. Well, child of the army, which amounts to pretty much the same thing. Couple that with a stint as the founding member, lead singer and sometimes-guitarist for hard rock band Herbal T and Pornography, and what you’ve got is a character shaped by songsRead more about Steve Nash[…]
Donna Marie was born in Rome; alas, not the Rome of the orphan twins but Rome, New York. She spent most of her early years in Texas before moving to Connecticut to complete her High School education, and her graduate and post graduate degrees in education and psychology. After teaching elementary and middle school childrenRead more about Donna Marie Merritt[…]
Andrew is a Southerner who spent most of his first twenty years in the London Overspill fringes of working-class Essex, talking estuary English and breathing in cement dust. But his father was a vicar, and his brothers went to a minor public school – so there was a certain poshness to be breathed in too. Read more about Andrew Brown[…]
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[…]
