Sam Willis is a Faber Academy alumna currently working on the second draft of her first novel Welcome to the Club. She works in academic non-fiction as a copy editor and project manager.

Tim Relf writes fiction as T.R. Richmond. His novel, What She Left, was published by Penguin. A psychological suspense story, it sold to publishers in 21 countries and was turned in to an audiobook starring Emilia Clarke and Charles Dance from Game of Thrones. The Guardian called it “extraordinary”, the Sunday Express dubbed it “addictive”,…

Deana Luchia has been a journalist and editor for over twenty years, living and working in Japan, Canada, Italy and Malta. She self-published her first novel, God & Dallas, a few years ago before studying for a Masters in Professional Writing. Her novel, Happy as Harry, was published in 2017. Now living in London with her children and dogs,…

Keziah Frost is a psychotherapist and holds masters degrees in English and Counseling. She developed The Reluctant Fortune-Teller while enrolled in the Faber Academy online course. She shares her life with five little dogs, one audacious cat, and her encouraging human family. The Reluctant Fortune-Teller is her first novel.

Lucy Cripps is a freelance wordsmith with an obsession for the rules of grammar. As a senior lecturer at University of Salzburg, she taught advanced grammar and writing courses to English-teacher trainees, and gained up-close-and-personal understanding of the intricate rules and exceptions that riddle the English language. Away from the chalk face, Lucy has written, edited…

As an artist and maker Kate High has produced work in mixed metals and woods. The contemporary pieces have been exhibited and sold throughout the UK and abroad. She has taught, part-time, for various organisations, the longest period being 17 years for the University of Nottingham. Kate took up writing full-time in 2013. She now lives in Lincolnshire.

Carol Ross is a therapeutic writing practitioner and holds regular therapeutic writing groups in mental health wards in Cumbria. Read more about her work on her website, or follow her on Twitter.

Charlotte Hobson’s first novel, The Vanishing Futurist, a historical novel set in revolutionary Moscow, was published earlier this year by Faber and Faber. Antony Beevor described it as ‘breathtakingly original, luminously intelligent and impossible to put down. A great novel by any measure.’ Her first book, Black Earth City (Granta 2000) won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the…

Living part of the year in mainland Greece and part in England, online study with Faber Academy was the perfect solution for Steph Rouse who wrote the first 15,000 words of her novel, Hellingly, while on the Faber Academy Writing a Novel:the first 15,000 online course and has since added another 50,000 words during the Work in Progress course.…

Sam Cunningham is a sportswriter for a national newspaper. He’s a Faber Academy online course alumnus and has been shortlisted for crime-writing competitions. He lives in London with his wife, Amy.