Gillian Philip was born in Glasgow, lived for 12 years in Barbados and now lives in the north of Scotland with her husband, twins, three dogs, two sociopathic cats, a slayer hamster, three chickens and a lot of nervous fish.
She has been writing all her life, but has also worked as a record store assistant, theatre usherette, barmaid, sales rep, political assistant, radio presenter, typesetter, and as a singer in an Irish bar in Barbados. In 2001, when her children were born and she moved back to Scotland, she became a full-time writer of Young Adult fiction.
Her website is at www.gillianphilip.com; she has a Facebook Author Page at www.facebook.com/gillianphilipauthor; and you can follow her on Twitter @Gillian_Philip.