Anna Abney (also published under the name Madeline Dewhurst) has taught English Literature and Creative Writing at the Open University and Queen Mary, University of London. She wrote her PhD on the seventeenth-century writer, Margaret Cavendish, under the supervision of Lisa Jardine at Queen Mary. Her writing includes fiction, journalism and drama. Anna was born and raised in London and lived in Ireland, North and South, for thirteen years before returning to the Big Smoke. She now lives in rural Kent.