Stevie Davies was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, thoughshe lived in Swansea, Wales from a week old, and spenta nomadic childhood in Egypt, Scotland and Germany.After studying at Manchester University, she went onto lecture there, returning to Swansea in 2001. She isProfessor of Creative Writing at Swansea University.Stevie is both a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literatureand a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. Her latest novel,Awakening, published by Parthian in 2013, was hertwelfth. Stevie has won numerous awards for her fiction,and has been long-listed for the Booker and OrangePrizes. Several of her books have been adapted intoradio and screenplays. She writes for the Guardianand Independent newspapers, and is a passionate sea-swimmer, cyclist and walker on the Gower.
