Julia Seivad
Julia Seivad was born in Cumbria, graduated in English Literature and Philosophy, worked in exporting and teaching, spent time in India, and travelled to the Americas, Guatemala, Slovakia and Spain. She walked, cycled, played violin and sang along the Santiago Way, windsurfed and sailed in coastal waters, volunteered in a London prison, taught in Valladolid, Spain, grew fruit and vegetables in Cantabria, and has settled there.
Her work includes poetry, an autobiography, teaching manuals and a novel, Use of the Fruit.