Elizabeth Diamond has been widely published in poetry journals, and has a collection entitled Windfalls Weighing Down the Heart, which was written as part of her submission for an MA in Creative Writing from Glamorgan University, Wales, during which her private tutor was the renowned Welsh poet, Gillian Clarke.  After the MA, Elizabeth switched her focus to writing prose, and has had two novels published by Picador, An Accidental Light and Underwater. An Accidental Light was also sold in the US and Germany and was translated into German as Aus dem Nichts. Her third novel, Blink, and I'm gone . . . is due out with The Book Guild in September.

 

Elizabeth would describe herself, amongst other things, as being a survivor. She has overcome a difficult childhood, poverty as a young single mother of two sons, and has battled with a stammer and depression. Now in her sixties, she is happy and comfortable in her own skin, and uses her life experience in writing about characters ‘on the edge’ of their lives. She lives in Devon, only a short walk from the sea. She enjoys painting seascapes and animals in acrylics and has sold a number of her ‘fish paintings’ in her local town.

 

She is also available for novel mentoring and workshops in memoir or fiction writing.