Elizabeth Speller is a poet and journalist, and has written for the Observer, Independent on Sunday and Woman's Journal, and appeared on Radio 4. Her previous books include Athens: A New Guide, Granta City Guides Rome, published by Granta. She lives in Gloucestershire, and teaches poetry and creative writing at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.
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