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Kim M. Russell

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I live with my husband and two cats in a cottage in Norfolk, close to the Broads and the coast. I've been writing almost every day since 2014, when I retired from teaching English, drama and media studies at a Norfolk high school, where I was also editor of the school magazine. I continue to work as a GCSE moderator/examiner and am an active volunteer at two local primary schools, listening to children read, and at local libraries, leading Bounce and Rhyme sessions for parents, babies and toddlers.

I started writing poetry as a teenager, as well as the occasional short story, but my retirement gave me the opportunity to develop an old idea for a children’s story into my first (unpublished) novel, while studying on the first of two creative ...more

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