Teresa Hardy ran away to France from a career in engineering 14 years ago, met a dashing Frenchman, and now lives with him and their two children in the Poitou-Charentes region.

She teaches English to adults in industry, as well as sub-editing and writing features about life in France for the lifestyle magazine Living Poitou-Charentes and the English-language French newspaper theFrenchPaper.

Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Equinox and The French Literary Review, and she gets inspiration and encouragement from 'Lumineuse' – a writing group of women in France. At the moment she is trying to attract the attention of an agent and publisher for her first novel while embarking on her second.