I’m a writer from Nottingham. In 2011, my nana died, my first play sold out in Edinburgh and I split from my long-term partner. It was one of those times when everything sort of shifts. You know what I mean. A few months later, I left my marketing job after eight years and moved to the Isle of Wight to work as a waitress for a while. When the cafe closed for the winter, I started to write full time. At first I was writing marketing copy, but for the last few years I’ve been writing plays and learning about the world of theatre. It’s a steep learning curve, and at the moment I’m gathering experiences and finding out how different processes work and what it really means to be a writer (apparently it ain’t just about spewing your inner turmoil onto a page). And amazingly, in 2016 I was jointly awarded the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and nominated for a Writers’ Guild Award, which made everything a lot more real.