Angharad Hampshire was born in Manchester in 1972. She has worked as a producer for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service in London, an honorary lecturer in journalism at the University of Hong Kong and a regular contributor to the South China Morning Post. She has a Doctor of Arts in creative writing from the University of Sydney. Angharad is a lecturer in creative writing at York St John University and lives in York with her family. The Mare is her first novel.
