Curlew, Fj: - Fiona was the winner of the Federation of Writers (Scotland) short story competition, 2023.She dropped out of school aged 15, because being the consummate rebel, she hated it! After becoming a single parent she decided to return to education, graduating in 1996 with an honours degree in primary education. Ah, the irony! As soon as she graduated she packed everything she owned into her Renault 11, including her daughter, two dogs and a cat, and headed off to Estonia to become an international school teacher. After fifteen years of teaching, predominantly in Eastern Europe, she returned to the UK.She now lives on the east coast of Scotland and has written four novels under her pen name of F J Curlew. She has used her given name, Fiona Curnow, for her fifth novel. Her writing has been described as, "Human experience impacted upon by political situation, interwoven with a love of nature."