Jill Dawson is the author of six critically acclaimed novels - Trick of the Light, Magpie, Fred & Edie (short-listed for the Whitbread and Orange prizes) Wild Boy, Watch Me Disappear (long-listed for the Orange and currently being adapted by ITV) and The Great Lover, about the poet Rupert Brooke: a best-seller and Richard and Judy Summer Read.  She has also won awards for her poetry and screenplays and held many fellowships, including the British Council Fellowship at Amhurst, USA and Royal Literary Fund Fellowship and Creative Writing Fellowship at UEA. In addition she is the editor of six collections of poetry and short-stories, and has an exceptional track record in discovering, nurturing and supporting new writers. She is a Board member of Writers Centre Norwich and her first collection of short stories in 1990 School Tales introduced the hugely successful children's writer Malorie Blackman, the novelist Joanna Briscoe and an even younger new writer aged 15 - Ruth Newman, who has recently published her first novel.

www.jilldawson.co.uk

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