Tracey Hill is a history graduate from the University of Oxford and has earned a living teaching English in Budapest and Tokyo. A market researcher by profession, she is now an editor and writer on subjects involving people, places and politics.
She has published a series of international spy thrillers under the pen name T.M. Parris, and one non fiction book, We're Not All the Same: Why Generalising about Politicians Damages Our Democracy - a Local Councillor's View.
She joined the Labour Party in 2008 and stood as an MEP candidate (Member of the European Parliament), before being elected as a councillor on Brighton and Hove City Council in 2015, where she served until early 2021.
She is currently a councillor in Belper, a lively market town in Derbyshire, UK.