Cheryl Robson is an award-winning playwright and editor, and has been nominated for her work as a translator and film-maker.She was born in Sydney, Australia to British immigrant parents. The family returned to England and Cheryl attended Bristol University before joining the BBC where she was involved in film and TV production for several years. see: www.cherylrobson.net As a playwright, she won the Croydon Warehouse International Festival for her play 'The Taking of Liberty' and had several stage plays produced in London. She went on to establish a theatre company and introduced the work of Dacia Maraini, Nawal el Saadawi and Marina Carr to British stages. She set up Aurora Metro Press and has published around 200 international writers, inaugurating the Virginia Prize For Fiction in 2009, a biennial competition for women novelists. see: www.aurorametro.com. With colleague, Rebecca Gillieron, they established Supernova Books to publish non-fiction books on culture. www.supernovabooks.co.uk. As an editor she has edited over 50 books and co-translated 'David's Story' by Stig Dalager (Nom. Marsh Award) and 'The Scream' by Laurent Graff. As a filmmaker she has produced and directed a number of short films including the arts documentaries 'Jo Brocklehurst' and 'Rock n Roll Island' nominated for Best Short International Film at Raindance London. As an entrepreneur she co-founded with her husband Steve, ea Consulting Group (ea Change Group) which now operates on three continents and delivers 10,000 days of change management globally every month. www.eacg.co.uk www.eacg.asia. It has been listed three times in the Virgin/Sunday Times list of fastest-growing companies in the UK.