Adele Ward

Adele Ward lives in North London with her sons Stefano and Danny, and her dog Larry. She worked as a journalist and author of nonfiction before spending four years in Italy where her sons were born.

She was one of the first students on Andrew Motion's postgraduate creative writing programme at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she did an MA in creative writing with a focus on poetry. Her poetry has been anthologised and broadcast on national and local radio.

In summer 2010 she set up Ward Wood Publishing to publish fiction and poetry. She's currently working on a PhD in creative writing and literature at Royal Holloway, writing a novel based on the life of Mary Coleridge and a thesis on literary biographical fiction.