I began The Virgin Blue during that year, and continued it once the course was over, juggling writing with freelance editing. I also finally had an idea I considered ‘big’ enough to fill a novel. For the first time in my life I was expected to write every day, and I found I liked it. My tutors were the English novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. "I worked as a reference book editor for several years until 1993 when I left my job and did a year-long MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (England). I was thrilled, even though the magazine folded 4 months later. "Once I took a night class in creative writing, and a story I’d written for it was published in a London-based magazine called Fiction. Sometimes I wrote a story in a couple evenings other times it took me a whole year to complete one. I wrote the odd story in high school, but it was only in my twenties that I started writing ‘real’ stories, at night and on weekends. "As a kid I’d often said I wanted to be a writer because I loved books and wanted to be associated with them. I intended to stay 6 months I’m still here. After getting a BA in English from Oberlin College (Ohio), I moved to London, England in 1984. "I was born and grew up in Washington, DC.
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