Dr Anna Vaught is an English teacher, Creative Writing teacher, mentor, editor and author of ten previous books. Her short creative works and features have been widely published, and she has written for the national press and has had a column with The Bookseller, Mslexia and other publications. She is the founder of The Curae, a literary prize for carers, a tutor for Jericho Writers, a freelance mentor, occasional university lecturer, a volunteer with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and campaigns for SEN provision. She has particular interests in magical realism and trauma and literature, psychology and chronic illnesss, subjects in her recent DPhil. She is the mother of three sons, comes from a large Welsh family and lives in Wiltshire.