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Lisa Blower
LISA BLOWER is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. Her debut collection, It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother's, pays homage to her Potteries childhood and features ‘Barmouth’ (shortlist...view moreLISA BLOWER is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. Her debut collection, It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother's, pays homage to her Potteries childhood and features ‘Barmouth’ (shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award), ‘Abdul’ (longlisted for the Sunday Times Award), and ‘Broken Crockery’ (winner, The Guardian National Short Story Competition). Her novel Sitting Ducks was shortlisted for the Arnold Bennett Prize and the Rubery, and longlisted for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize and the People’s Book Prize. She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Wolverhampton University, where she champions working-class fictions and regional voices. If she had a pound for every time she has travelled the Pondweed journey, she would be a millionaire. She lives in Shrewsbury.view less