Nicola McDonagh was born in Liverpool and is a creative writing tutor and photographer. Originally she trained as a photojournalist, then decided to do something more theatrical and gained a Hons. Degree in Drama and English Literature.

Nicola spent many years as an actor, scriptwriter and workshop leader, but gave all that up when she moved to Suffolk UK and became fascinated by the beauty of her surroundings.

Nicola returned to her love of literature and after gaining a Diploma in Creative Writing, she won the Suffolk Book League’s Short Story Competition in 2011 with ‘Glimmer’, which is now the first tale in her award winning anthology - Glimmer and other stories.
You can hear Nicola read ‘Scarecrow’ and ‘Glimmer’ on:
https://soundcloud.com/nikki-mcdonagh...

She was short-listed for the Escalator Genre Fiction Competition in 2012 with an extract from her unorthodox YA sci-fi novel ‘Echoes from the Lost Ones’ part of The Song of Forgetfulness series, originally published by Fable Press. Now revised and self-published in June 2015.

All three books in The Song of Forgetfulness series are available in both print and ebook formats.