Marion Urch is an award winning video artist and novelist, with an MA from the Royal College of Art in London. Both her novels Violent Shadows and An Invitation to Dance were published to critical acclaim: the latter has been translated into Russian and German. She has also published a number of short stories and has credits for radio and television

"My childhood was a flicker book of people and places: a children’s home run by nuns, the grounds of a Victorian military hospital, a merchant house outside the ancient city of Mdina in Malta, a brand new housing estate in York. In between times, the family spent long summers in rural Leitrim, in the North West of Ireland. Moving around a lot, I caught glimpses of other lives, other identities, other versions of myself I might have been. "