Jane Menczer lives and works in Cambridge. She is currently
writing The Bureau, her second novel. She is represented by David
Smith at the Annette Green Authors’ Agency
As well as being a writer, Gary O'Connor is a practising artist. He
is in his final year of an MA at Norwich School of Art & Design called
Writing the Visual. Gary has had work published in a number of
underground publications and in December of this year, he has a
story called ‘Soft’, published in an anthology of fiction by artists
titled The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories (Serpent’s
Tail).
Laura Dietz was born in Minneapolis in 1976 and has lived outside
Los Angeles, outside San Francisco, and outside London. She very
much enjoys living in the centre of Cambridge. Her Escalator
sample came from her second novel-in-progress, Risk, on
antiquities fraud in early 20th-century Egypt. Her first novel, In the
Tenth House, follows the private war of a spiritualist and a protopsychiatrist in 1896 London. It will be published by Crown Books in
June, 2006.
Ferron Anderson was born in Northern Ireland, where he was shot
through the arm by the IRA, and later served with the British Army.
He moved to Norwich in 1989 to take a degree in English Literature
at the University of East Anglia. He has just finished his first novel, I
Still Miss Someone, about how living through the troubles leads a
man to disengage. He has a collection of short stories half way
there, and is working on his second novel, set in Vancouver, about
accepting the past and letting it go.
Megan Dunn was born in New Zealand. She went to art school at
Auckland University, and ran an alternative gallery for three years.
She has published art reviews and fiction in Australasian magazines.
Before moving to London she worked at strip club, Showgirls, and
massage parlour, Femme Fatale. Her novel draws on her experience
working in the sex industry.
Judy Forshaw graduated from the National Film and Television
School in 1991. Since then she has written mainly for television –
EastEnders, Byker Grove and Grange Hill. Having recently decided
to move away from television scriptwriting, she now teaches
screenwriting at Anglia Ruskin University, and has just completed
her first novel The Keeper and the Monkey which she is currently
converting into a feature length screenplay.
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Ruth Dugdall studied English Literature at Warwick University, and
then trained as a Probation Officer, partly working in a Prison
environment. These experiences inform her writing. Her first novel,
The James Version, was published in 2004. Her second novel, The
Woman Before Me, won the CWA Debut Dagger in November 2005,
but has yet to be published. She has recently given up work to write
full-time and has just completed her third novel. Ruth lives in
Suffolk with her husband, Andrew and their two children
Verity Holloway is studying for her BA in English Literature and
Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, and is currently
unpublished. She concentrates on fiction, but has had several
poems published and was awarded a runners-up prize in the
Forward Press 2004 Top 100. She writes mainly fantasy, historical
and gothic novel length stories and is particularly interested in
themes of madness and reality.
Stephanie Cross was born in Norfolk in 1979 and has spent the
majority of her life in the county. In 2002 she graduated with a BA
in English from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and in 2005 she also
gained an M.Phil in English Studies. She began to review fiction for
the Daily Mail in 2003 and since then has worked as a freelance
literary critic for The Observer, the TLS and, more recently, BBC
Radio Five. She am also a qualified EFL teacher.
Aliya Whiteley has been writing novels and short stories for 11
years. She was shortlisted for the Guardian Short Story Competition
in 2004, and has had a short story published in the anthology, The
Adventure of the Missing Detective: and 19 of the Year’s Finest
Crime and Mystery Stories. Her first novel, Three Things About Me,
was published by Macmillan New Writing this year. She is currently
working on her second novel.
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