Hi. I am an author and poet and I regularly mix up prose and poetry in my work. I realised writing was a thing when I received my first poetry prize aged 6 at my much loved local library in Leamington Spa. In the real world I've been, among other things, an elected city councillor and a lawyer. I have three beautiful daughters and a grandson.I've done some comedy performance poetryhttps://youtu.be/XblbBrVMuqg and performed at many UK festivals including the Leamington Peace Festival, Newcastle Pride Festival, Newcastle Green Festival, the Doune Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe 2010/11/12/14 I've played venues from Edinburgh to Brighton, the back rooms of pubs and comedy clubs to major venues such as The Sage. One of my page poems was shortlisted in the Bridport International Poetry Prize 2011 and a comedy piece called Snail Love appears in The Iron Anthology of New Humorous Verse 2010.Under pseudonym Adnam Arekab I've published adventure books for junior readers - the Chronicles of Eleanor Catherine - Long Limbed Green Eyed Dragon Slayer; book 1 - Eleanor & the Dragons of Death (Writers Digest ****) book 2 - Eleanor the Dragon Witch & the Time Twisting Mirror book 3 - Eleanor & the Dragon Runt My adult novels include -The Companion ContractandEating the Vinyland now I have a comedy sortofautobiographyMaybe I'm not a Pigeon(My lives and me in Ten Houses)all available on Amazon. As well as being a finalist in a national BBC sitcom writing contest (despite ditching television in 1999) I was quarter finalist and finalist in two separate national stand-up comedy competitions. I was shortlisted in the Virginia Wolfe short story awards. My apocalyptic short story The Remainder was published in ROOT anthology 2013.My environmental audio story poem for children - Casey & the Surfmen - is available directly from bandcamp https://amandabaker.bandcamp.com Ella & the Knot Fairies, my first verse/picture book for young children is now also available as is my first sci fi novella - zero one zero two.I run a weekly satirical blog athttp://browngirloutsidethering.blogspot.co.uk/