Ravinder Randhawa is an acclaimed author and a blogger at Huffington Post. She was born in India, grew up in leafy Warwickshire, now lives in London; agrees with the old
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Mike van Graan graduated from UCT with a BA Hons in Drama. He is a cultural consultant and has held several posts including Director of the Community Arts Project, National
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Michèle Roberts was born in 1949 to a French mother and an English father. She grew up in Edgware, a suburb of north-west London. Michèle is the author of twelve
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Mary Jo Bang (born October 22, 1946 in Waynesville, Missouri) is an American poet. She grew up in Ferguson, Missouri. She graduated from Northwestern University, in sociology, from the Polytechnic of Central London, and from Columbia University...
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Her first play, The S Bend, was produced as part of the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writers’ Festival in 1984. She went on to write four more plays that were
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Laura Bridgeman is a writer, editor and lecturer. She runs hotpencil press with Serge Nicholson. Recent Credits include: The Butch Monologues (In collaboration with Vital Xposure and The Drakes), The
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Kirsty Gunn was born in 1960 in New Zealand and educated at Queen Margaret College and Victoria University, Wellington, and at Oxford, where she completed an M.Phil. After moving to
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Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) A Scottish poet and playwright, she was born at Bothwell, Lanarkshire, the third of three children of Dorothea (Hunter) and James Baillie, a junior minister at Hamilton,
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James Whyle
James Whyle is an actor, writer, director and producer. He turned from acting to writing in 1994 when it first became possible for the real issues of South Africa to
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Hilary Bailey spent her early life between two Kent air fields during the Battle of Britain then move to London in time for the start of the bombing. She attended
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