Justine Bothwick grew up in Kent and Hampshire, and studied in London. In 2005, she moved to Italy and now teaches English in an international secondary school in Rome. She is married to a Roman architect. Together they have a flat in the city with a small balcony on which she grows her ever expanding collection of plants and watches the local birdlife. Justine is a graduate of the Manchester Writing School’s Creative Writing MA programme and has short stories published in Fictive Dream , Virtual Zine , Confingo Magazine , and forthcoming in The Lonely Crowd , and with Nightjar Press . In the Mirror, a Peacock Danced is her debut novel.
