Sophie Nicholls was born in West Yorkshire in 1971. She won an Arvon-Jerwood Young Poet's Apprenticeship in 2003. She lives in York, where she works as a therapist and runs the Word Sauce online programmes in writing and being at www.wordsaucery.com. She is the author of the novella Ruby Slippers and of The Amazon Kindle Top 20 bestselling novel, The Dress.
