Sue Slipman was born in 1949 in Brixton, south London. She read English at university and was the first woman elected as President of the National Union of Students. She has been a Trades Union Official, chaired the Financial Ombudsman Service and run a number of national organisations and charities. Campaigner and political activist, she was awarded an O.B.E for services to charity. Sue is currently the Deputy Chair of Kings College Hospital in south east London. She lives in London and has a house in a small village in the Alpujarra mountain range in Spain, which inspired her to write her first collection of stories. Sue loves the arts, travel and walking, both in the UK and her beloved Sierra Nevada.