Escalator 2011/12 winner: Teresa Rogers

I was born, bred and educated in Norfolk. I think my family were probably deposited here during the last glaciation. I have worked in shops, delivered the mail and ridden shotgun on a mobile library. I am currently employed in horticulture. About five years ago I found that writing was a compulsion I could no longer ignore. At that point, enthusiastic and clueless, I started a novel. When the isolation began to get to me, I enrolled on a diploma course at the UEA and learned some hard but valuable lessons by exposing my work to others for the first time. I am currently writing my second book which is, I’m sure no one will be surprised to learn, set in Norfolk. Although perhaps not Norfolk as you think you know it…