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Jill Dawson is the author of the novelsTrick of the Light,Magpie,Fred and Edie, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award,Wild Boy,Watch Me Disappear, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize,The Great Lover,Lucky Bunny,The Tell-Tale HeartandThe Crime Writer, which won the East Anglian Book of the Year. An award-winning poet, she has also edited several poetry and short story anthologies.
Jill Dawson has held many Fellowships, including the Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. In 2008 she founded a mentoring scheme for new writers, Gold Dust. She lives in the Cambridgeshire Fens.
www.jilldawson.co.uk
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