Francesca Armour-Chelu

Francesca Armour-Chelu grew up by the Suffolk Coast. She studied English and Drama at Goldsmiths and went on to work in museum education and public libraries.Her experience of living on water meadows in an abandoned Edwardian railway carriage inspired her novel, FENN HALFIN AND THE FEARZERO, which was short-listed for the Mslexia Childrens Novel Competition and in the Children's category at the 2016 East Anglian Book Awards.  Her novel LEMON INK OVER FLAME was short-listed for the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize 2013 and her short story THE STARVING GHOST won the Mslexia Short Story Competition 2013.