Wendy Perriam

Career: author and creative writing tutor; formerly copywriter: Colman Prentis & Varley, Notley & Pritchard Wood; articles and stories published in magazines and newspapers incl: She, Cosmopolitan, For Women, Woman's Jl, The Lady, Image, Penthouse, Esquire, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Independent, Daily Express; essays, poems and stories included in: Arts Cncl Anthology, SE Arts anthologies, Seven Deadly Sins, Best Short Stories, The Picador Book of Erotic Prose, The Literary Comparison to Sex, The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories, The Death of a Child, Standpoint; memb: Soc of Authors, PEN, Br Actors Equity

Books and Publications: Absinthe for Elevenses (1980, reissued 1991), Cuckoo (1981, reissued 1992), After Purple (1982, reissued 1993), Born of Woman (1983, reissued 1993), The Stillness The Dancing (1985, reissued 1994), Sin City (1987, reissued 1994), Devils, for a Change (1989), Fifty-Minute Hour (1990), Bird Inside (1992), Michael, Michael (1993), Breaking and Entering (1994), Coupling (1996), Second Skin (1998), Lying (2000), Dreams, Demons and Desire (2001), Tread Softly (2002), Virgin in the Gym and Other Stories (2004), Laughter Class and Other Stories (2006), The Biggest Female in the World and Other Stories (2007), Little Marvel and Other Stories (2008), The Queen's Margarine and Other Stories (2009), Broken Places (2010), I'm on the Train! and Other Stories (2012)