Julia Bell used to be a DJ before "becoming a proper person and getting a job." She is now a writer, editor, and tutor based at the University of East Anglia where she has also established Pen & Ink., a small press. She is coeditor of Hard Shoulder (Trindal Street Press,1999) and England Calling (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001) with Jackie Grey, and coeditor of The Creative Writing Coursebook (MacMillan, 2001) with Paul Magrs.
