Sarah spent most of her childhood in Cornwall but isn’t very good at surfing. After graduating from Southampton with a degree in English and Music, she immediately left the country and spent the next few years wandering around Asia and Europe teaching English. After rejoining the real world, she came back and trained to be a secondary English teacher. After spending six years helping hundreds of students analyse and create their own stories through words and film, she decided it was her turn.

Sarah has just completed an MA in Creative Writing at City University in London, along with her first novel. She won the Segora Short Story competition this summer, and her short fiction has won other competitions and been published online. The Power of Words (http://sarahtinsley.com) explores her fascination with the power of words in a range of contexts. Her articles have been published on the Vagenda. Not a big fan of spare time, she also runs marathons and plays samba reggae on a very big drum.