Jane Claire Bradley (www.janeclairebradley.com) is an award-winning writer, performer, educator and therapist, based in Manchester. Jane writes novels, short stories and performance poetry, mostly about teenagers, trauma, queerness and class. Jane's first novel, The Summer Everything Happened, won the Northern Debut Award from New Writing North.  She is the author of a fiction chapbook, Truth or Dare, and has been longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Jane has performed at arts and literature festivals across the UK, from Edinburgh Fringe to the Royal Albert Hall, and is the founder of For Books' Sake (www.forbookssake.net), a non-profit dedicated to championing marginalised writers.