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About Lisa Selvidge Lisa completed a BA in Russian
Language & Literature at the University of London, with Portuguese as a
subsidiary. After travelling and teaching English as a Foreign Language for
several years in Japan and Russia, she went on to take an MA in Creative Writing
(Prose Fiction) at the University of East Anglia in the UK. She subsequently
taught at the Norwich School of Art & Design for five years and then at the
University of East Anglia where, in 2001, she became academic director for
creative writing in the Centre for Continuing Education. Over the next three
years she expanded both the writing programme and teaching team. She also
tutored on accredited and award bearing courses on prose fiction, script &
screenwriting, writing memoirs, popular fiction and online courses. She now lives in Portugal for much of the year and teaches for the Continuing Education departments of University of East Anglia, University of York and Oxford University, as well as doing freelance work. Her fiction includes The Trials of Tricia Blake, A Divine War and The Last Dance over the Berlin Wall. She has also edited a collection of Algarve stories entitled, Summer Times in the Algarve and a book about how to write fiction called the Writing Fiction Workbook. She was also involved in the BBC Get Writing website www.bbc.co.uk/getwriting
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