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.

December 20, 2013

Yule is nigh!

When you look into most of the Christmas traditions they come from a time when nature was worshipped and way before any Jewish god came along. The colours, red, green and gold, mistletoe, feasting, presents, trees/greenery brought inside, giving thanks and all done over the Winter Solstice. So on the 21st December celebrate the fact days will be longer and Yule is nigh.

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