Silja Swaby, half Jamaican, half Finnish, is a marine biologist and author. Funded by Arts Council England, she has won competitions, and been placed in prizes and awards. She is working on a series of futuristic thrillers, featuring a female biologist whose quiet academic life takes a drastic turn. Silja has taken creative writing courses at Cambridge University and more recently Yale University, USA.

Silja tutors writers, gives workshops, and provides a critique service. She is happily unmarried and lives in deepest Somerset, UK.


Silja Swaby is pronounced Sil-yah Sway-bee.

February 02, 2012

Newt Gingrich's Moon Colony

I must have some psychic link with the guy because I'm writing a series of short stories about just that - a colony on the moon. Mind you, these people are not ones you'd want to be stuck up there with. You wouldn't want to get too close to them on earth either.

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