Lynne Rees was born and brought up in South Wales and has lived in the Channel Islands, Florida and Barcelona. She worked as a money dealer in Jersey then later as a bookseller in Kent, running her own second-hand and antiquarian bookshop for twelve years. She's the recipient of a Hawthornden Fellowship, holds a Masters Degree in Writing from the University of Glamorgan, and teaches fiction and poetry on the creative writing programme at the University of Kent. In January 2004 she was awarded the Faculty (of Humanities) Teaching Prize. Her writing has been widely published, and most recently anthologised in The Woman Who Loved Cucumbers (Honno Modern Fiction 2002), Changing Times - Welsh Women Writing on the 1950s and 1960s (Honno 2003), The Pterodactyl's Wing - Welsh World Poetry (Parthian 2003) and Four Caves of the Heart - An Anthology of 14 Women Poets (Second Light Publications 2004). Her first book-length work of fiction, The Oven House, is published by Bluechrome (July 2004).