I have been a practicing artist since I was five. What I mean is that I entered a school-wide art competition and won. The top prize was a beautiful hand-made, ruched, and embroidered doll's dress, which I still own. I have been making art since then, in between an assortment of management jobs in the charity sector, and a stint as a costume designer in New York. About ten years ago I took a brilliant two-year creative writing course at the University of Sussex. I focused on