Ailsa Cox has published stories in various magazines and anthologies, including Manchester Stories 4, London Magazine and The Virago Book of Love and Loss. Her short study of Alice Munro appeared in the Northcote House Writers and Their Work series in 2004. She’s also the author of Writing Short Stories (Routledge 2005). Born in Walsall Staffs, she is a long term escapee to Northern England, and is now based in Liverpool, teaching creative writing at Edge Hill.