Amber Lee Dodd teaches creative writing, has a blue belt in kickboxing and briefly lived in a Scottish castle. Her dream is to go on an adventure to the Arctic, or to ride across the Arabian Desert, like the lady adventures in Lighting Chase Me Home. But she mostly spends her time by the sea dressed in 1940’s clothes, coming up with stories.
Her plays have been performed at the Minerva Theatre, New Theatre Royal and the Edinburgh Fringe. Her short stories have been published around the world and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her first book We Are Giants was nominated for ten awards, winning the Calderdale Book of the Year and short listing for the Branford Boase Award.