Bryony DoranBryony Doran is a writer of both prose and poetry. Her first novel, The China Bird, was published after winning the Hookline Novel Competition in 2009, and was followed in 2013 by her short story collection, The Sand Eggs. Her poetry collection, 'Bulet Proof', was published in 2016 in Home Front by Bloodaxe Books - a quadrilogy of book-length sequences by female poets living in a state of separation from husbands or sons serving in a war zone. I was born in a youth hostel on Dartmoor, where my parents were the wardens. I grew up in Cornwall and went on to study fashion at Manchester. I then later took an MA in Writing at Sheffield Hallam University.​ Read More Read Less