Alexandra North is a part-time lecturer in Creative Writing at Coventry University and, closer to home, an Adult Education tutor somewhere way up high in the Welsh hills. She is due to complete her MPhil in Writing with the University of Glamorgan this summer having finished a collection of short stories and novella entitled Running The Whiteboard, the latter being based on her experiences as a Moneybroker in London. She is now married and has a dog, a car, and a garden.