I'm a Londoner, an urban walker, wildlife gardener, ultra-amateur botanist and photographer. I trained in Documentary photography at the cutting edge course in Newport S Wales and worked as a press photographer, my career cut short due only to social anxiety. Later, as a young single parent, I took A levels in triple science, and completed a short course in creative writing at the LSE. At Birkbeck I wrote essays on the history of art and architecture. I've been writing in my head since childhood.