Lynne Alexander

Fellow at St Martin's College Lancaster, 2001-03 Project Fellow, 2003/04

Lynne Alexander was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has lived in the U.K. since 1970. She became an accomplished harpsichordist before turning to writing in 1980. Her first novel, Safe Houses, was published in Britain in l984 (Michael Joseph; King Penguin) and has been translated into 8 languages. Since then she has published four more novels: Resonating Bodies (Macmillan), Taking Heart (Fourth Estate), Adolf's Revenge (Abacus) and Intimate Cartographies (Duckworth). In publishing limbo at the moment are: The Second Most Dangerous Woman in America (about the American anarchist Emma Goldman), and a verse novel, Roy & Pearl in Wombland.

From l990-95 she was Writer in Residence at hospices in Lancaster, Oxford and Ulverston and published two volumes of poetry based on collaborations with patients: Now I Can Tell (Macmillan) and Throwaway Lines (Sobell House Publications).

In 1996 she won an Arts Council Writer's Award for The Second Most Dangerous Woman in America.

Lynne teaches Novel Writing at Sheffield Hallam University (MA in Creative Writing).

Email:

lynne@estuary.bbfree.co.uk