Germaine Hypher Author

Germaine Hypher has been disabled by chronic illness and fatigue since childhood and has found arts and crafts to be her constant best allies, teaching her to live a well-adapted, meaningful and joyful life while predominantly housebound and often bed-based. Her writing experience has included providing content for the eco-store Natural Collection, founding and editing a nature-crafts magazine for seven years, contributions to various anthologies, winning the Hastings National Poetry Competition (2005) and winning a bursary from The Literary Consultancy. Crafting a Path through Illness has been completed against the odds, often in energy-windows of just half-an-hour a day, but is a testament to the power of creative expression in giving meaning to life with chronic illness.