Catherine Fisher Quotes

Catherine Fisher was born in Newport, Gwent, Wales. She is a Welsh writer, poet and  teacher. Her former jobs include working as a primary school teacher and archaeologist. She graduated from the University of Wales with a degree in English and a fascination for myth and history. She is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. She also taught Writing for Children at the University of Glamorgan. She  published three collections of poetry with Seren Publishing. The collection Immrama won the Welsh Arts Council Young Writers Prize and she also won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition; both in 1989. Her nineteen novels have been translated into seventeen languages and many of her novels have won or been shortlisted for literary awards.