Kirsty is from the North East of England and won the English Heritage/Belsay Hall National Creative Writing competition in 2009 and the Wyvern Publications Flash Fiction Competitions in 2010 and 2011.At the end of 2013, Choc Lit publishers snapped up world rights to her paranormal novel 'The Memory of Snow' and will re-release it under their Choc Lite imprint in Spring 2014. Kirsty's next novel, a paranormal time slip romance set in Whitby, will also be published in paperback by Choc Lit in Autumn 2014.'The Memory of Snow' was commended in the Northern Writer's Awards, shortlisted to the top five of Wyvern's novel competition in 2011 and longlisted in the Red Telephone Novel Competition in 2012. This novel is on Amazon along with her new paranormal novel, 'Refuge', which is set on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne and in London.Kirsty has also put together a collection of short stories entitled 'Turn on a Sixpence' and a non-fiction collection of articles entitled 'History and Mystery - Northern Hauntings Explored'.'Skellig' author David Almond has given Kirsty excellent feedback on her work and she recently attended a Crossover Fiction workshop with David, facilitated by the Royal Society of Literature.Kirsty's children's book 'The Golbin' was critiqued very favourably by Louise Jordan in Writers Forum magazine and she has had articles and short stories published in First Edition, Peoples Friend, Ghost Voices, The Weekly News, It's Fate, Vintage Script, Wyvern Magazine, Wyvern Publications 'Mertales' and 'Fangtales anthologies, Whitby Abbey's 'Pure Inspiration' anthology and Bridge House Publishing's anthologies 'Devils, Demons and Werewolves', 'Crime after Crime' and 'Voices of Angels', along with 'The Best of CafeLit 2011'. All of these books are available on Amazon.Kirsty was also a judge in the Paws 'n' Claws 'Wild and Free' Children's Story competition in 2011 and again in 2013.You can find out more about Kirsty and her work at www.rosethornpress.co.uk