Sally Cline

Sally Cline, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, is an award-winning short-fiction writer and biographer of Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald and Radclyffe Hall. The Hall biography was short-listed for a LAMBDA award. Her 11th book, to be published by Bloomsbury Aug 2012, (co-authored with Gold Dust mentor Midge Gillies) is The Arvon  Book of Literary Non-Fiction: Writings  about Travel, Nature, Food, Feminism, Science, History, Sexuality and Friendship. It is Volume three in Bloomsbury’s eight volume series of books about writing she is co-editing with Carole Angier. Sally has just completed a novel The Visitor and is writing a second. Formerly Director of The Writers’ Pool mentoring scheme, judge and mentor for the Escalator programme, Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow, she has been a Hawthornden Fellow, has taught at Cambridge University and Arvon, and is currently Writer in Residence at Anglia Ruskin University. Sally Cline holds degrees and Masters from Durham and Lancaster Universities and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters for her writing internationally.