Helen Parker

Helen Parker loves languages. She studied French and German at school (many years ago!) and is currently learning Italian and Modern Greek. She taught English to speakers of other languages for sixteen years in Edinburgh, Cyprus and Cairo, and returned to Edinburgh in 2014. She later completed an MA in Creative Writing with Manchester Metropolitan University. The course introduced her to novels in an inspiring variety of styles and genres and inspired her to write her own novel, Reluctant Phoenix, as her final dissertation.