Saskia Tepe was born in 1954 In Germany. She and her mother emigrated to the UK in 1961 under the auspices of World Refugee Year 1959. She has taught Modern Languages, and worked in the whisky, computer and banking industries. Her memoir “Surviving Brigitte’s Secrets: A Holocaust Survivor. Her Daughter. Two Traumatic Journeys.” was begun in 2006 for cathartic reasons, and then she spent eight years on her greatest achievement – getting her memoir into print. After joining two writer’s groups and learning the craft of writing, she found her style. This led to being runner up for her first draft of the memoir in 2008 and then winning the Scottish Association of Writers’ Scholarship Prize in 2009 for a one act play based on her mother’s story. She has also had a few articles published. Her writing has always been linked to or sparked by experiences shared with her mother. She is now very happily married for a second time, has two grown sons, and lives in Glasgow. She has always wanted to dance the Samba in Rio, but somehow she doesn’t think that will happen. The hip joints are beginning to creak, the feather headdress has matted with age, and that vibrant bikini she planned to wear following the Mardi-Gras parade, well… Still, sometimes dreams have to remain unfulfilled. That way you treasure those that came true even more.