Janice Fixter was born in Kent and has lived in South East London ever since. She has a BA in psychology from London University (Goldsmiths College) and a MA in Creative Writing, the Arts and Education and a D.Phil. in Creative Writing (poetry) from Sussex University.

Janice has been writing poetry and non-fiction since 1994 and has been widely published. Her poems have been broadcast on various local radio stations - Premier Radio, LBC and Radio 4 -and she has read her poetry at a number of venues - some which were great and others which were decidedly smoky and strange.

Janice has also written non-fiction articles and books on parenting - “The Parentalk Guide to being a Mum” Hodder and Stoughton 2000 and “How to Succeed as a Single Parent” Hodder and Stoughton 2003 with Diane Louise Jordan. She has contributed to radio programmes and has been seen once or twice on the BBC. From 2001 to 2007 Janice was a trustee of “Parentalk” - a charity which aims to inspire parents.

In 1997 Poets Anonymous published her chapbook “Walking Away From The Shadows” and in 2005 her pamphlet “Walking the Hawk” was published by tall-lighthouse. Her first full collection ‘a kind of slow motion’ was published by tall-lighthouse in July 2007. She is passionate about birds, bats and orchids.

Wing Beats is an ongoing project started
by the haiku poets John Barlow and Matthew Paul.
It is centred around the book
Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku,
which will be published in June 2008
by Snapshot Press price £15.

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