Nigel Fletcher is a Birmingham based writer who for many years earned his living as an advertising copywriter, whilst also indulging a passion for literary writing. He is a winner of the Chatterton national poetry prize, and was an early student on the M.A. in Creative Writing course at UEA run by Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson. As well as poems, Nigel also writes novels and short stories - a selection of which are available from his website www.wordstorm.co.uk .