Frances Stickley

Frances Stickley grew up in Nottingham and Norwich, England, where she spent much of her time writing poems and dressing up her dog. She is a former primary school teacher specialising in special needs education, who realised her love of writing when she was just six years old. She lives with her family and a dog with big ears in Derbyshire, and when she isn’t writing, you’ll find her in the woods playing dragons with her daughters. She has won the Bloomsbury and National Literacy Trust Short Story Awards in 2017.