She has been published both in print and on the web, and has had some success in competitive writing.�She teaches Creative Writing to residents of a drugs rehab, and founded and edits a specialist ezine for writing by those whose lives have been touched by addiction (tomsvoicemagazine.com). Early in 2006 she was awarded joint first prize in a writing competition judged by Zadie Smith. The�prize was a china mug. The real prize was endorsement from an excellent writer. Her work is being broadcast on BBC radio later in 2006, and one of her stories was also selected as the first piece to be distributed on London Underground in the Litro initiative. Married with two sons, she writes at a fuchsia pink desk in her garden shed. For solitude.