Rebecca Smith – Editor
Rebecca is the author of three novels published by Bloomsbury.
The Bluebird Café (2001) Happy Birthday and All That (2003) and A Bit of Earth (2006). Her first novel for children was shortlisted for the 2012 Kelpies Prize, and her first non-fiction book, Jane Austen’s Guide to Modern Life’s Dilemmas (2012) is published by Ivy Press in the UK and Tarcher Penguin in the USA and Canada. She is currently finishing another novel.
Rebecca is an experienced tutor and teaches creative writing at The University of Southampton. From 2009 – 2010 she was the Writer in Residence at Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton. She still works closely with the Museum, running workshops and judging the Museum’s annual competition for young writers.
(Publisher profile of Rebecca)