Tanya Ravenswater
Tanya D. Ravenswater was born in County Down, Northern Ireland. She graduated in modern languages from St Andrews, Scotland and later gained an M.A. in Counselling Studies from Keele University, Staffordshire. She has worked as a general nurse, as a counsellor and in counselling education. Tanya writes fiction and poetry for adults and children, and has facilitated numerous writing projects within an educational context, including creating nature and place-themed anthologies for schools. Her short stories have been published among short-listed entries for the Cheshire Prize for Literature, and her poems have appeared in poetry magazines, such as, among others, Orbis and Obsessed with Pipework. Tanya currently lives in Cheshire with her husband, two teenage children and an alpha Jack Russell.