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.

August 31, 2013

Elmore and Seamus

Elmore Leonard and Seamus Heaney have left the world a better place for terrific writing. It's difficult to square with Fifty Shades of Grey being the biggest selling book ever and it's hopelessly clichéd opening pages.

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