Gee Williams was born and brought up in North Wales and now lives in Cheshire with her husband. A widely-published poet and a dramatist as well as writer of fiction, her work has appeared in disparate places: from The Sunday Times to The Pan Book of Horror. Many of her scripts have been broadcast by BBC Radio 4. She has won both The Rhys Davies and The Book Pl@ce Contemporary Short Story Awards, was Poetry Review's New Poet, Summer 1997, short-listed for The Geoffrey Dearmer Award and (in collaboration with Sol B. River) short-listed for the Race in the Media Radio Drama Award 2001

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“Why write? Not sure, because it started so early on. I was writing before I could write, before I could decipher the written word. My mother read Black Beauty to me when I was very small and suffering from some ailment. By the time I was better, I'd finished the sequel (in my head). Everyone who'd been cruel to our hero came to a grisly end. If I'm honest I still wish it could happen.”