Clare Dudman

Clare Dudman has a PhD in chemistry and has worked as a research scientist and as a teacher in high schools and universities - both in science and creative writing. Her writing has won two national awards and she has won a prize for a short story. She has also been awarded two grants for travel and has wandered around remote parts of Greenland, Patagonia and China, but some of her favourite travelling was inside her head when she trained to be shaman for a character in A PLACE OF MEADOWS AND TALL TREES. As well as exotic settings she is interested in scientific ideas and enjoys incorporating these in her fiction - set either in the past or some other world of her own invention. She has been married for decades, has two adult sons and lives with her husband close to the town in north Wales where she was born.