Sally Cline Author

Sally Cline, Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and Advisory Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, is the author of 11 books including biographies of Radclyffe Hall (shortlisted for a LAMBDA award), the award winning Zelda Fitzgerald, and forthcoming January 2014 Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery (Arcade Books USA). She has now completed a biographical study of Lillian Hellman. She was one of the UK Judges for the 2013 H.W. Fisher Best First Biography Prize and is co-series editor of Bloomsbury's 9 volume series of books on writing, for which she has co-authored two volumes, one on life writing and one on literary non-fiction. Chapter 5 of her first novel The Visitor is on the web in issue 11 of The International Literary Quarterly for which she is a Consulting Editor. Her short fiction for print and radio has won prizes from the BBC and Raconteur and been shortlisted for the Asham Award. She has received a Hawthornden Fellowship, and won the Hosking Houses Trust Fellowship for Women Writers over 40. She lives in Cambridge, has taught at Cambridge University, was Writer in Residence at Anglia Ruskin University, has judged and mentored for the Arts Council Escalator programme and currently for the prestigious Gold Dust mentoring scheme. She has degrees and Masters from Durham and Lancaster Universities and an Honorary Doctorate in writing internationally.