Vanessa GebbieVanessa Gebbie is the author of two collections of stories and contributing editor of a creating writing text book. She has won numerous awards - including prizes at Bridport, Fish and the Willesden Herald (the latter judged by Zadie Smith) - for hershort fiction. An extract from The Coward's Tale, her first novel, won the Daily Telegraph 'Novel in a Year' Competition. Vanessa Gebbie is Welsh and lives in Sussex. Read More Read Less