Born in Newport, Catherine Fisher has been a primary school teacher, taught Creative writing and dug up Roman pottery on archaeological digs. Now she spends most of her time writing novels and poems, drawing, fencing, and taking walks in the woodlands of the Wye valley. She lives in Wales with her two cats Jessa and Tam Lin.
Catherine Fisher is a writer of rare talent The Sunday Times A subtle thriller with passages of intense description interspersed with the plot full of excitement The School Librarian Fisher is a hugely talented writer ... This is a dark and brooding fantasy Sainsbury's Magazine Fisher conveys complex human emotions through fantasy, teen angst has rarely had such a visceral expression as in the boggy, unpredictable wilderness of Chloe's self-created prison Booklist 20060101 A fantastic story Teen Titles