Maggie Edwards

Maggie Edwards was born the fifth child of seven in a fourteenth-century Kent Cottage called Ranters. It was originally used by a group of religious dissenters and her mother, raising an eyebrow at her daughter's passionate tirade on injustice, noted the birthright. She left her convent school at sixteen, for art college to paint. Later, she returned to college for a teaching degree. Her experience with students in secondary and further education inspired her to write on the coming of age of young people from different backgrounds and cultures. She teaches ceramic sculpture part-time, and lives and works as an artist and a writer in Newhaven, Sussex. She has two children and two grandchildren and has written three YA novels.