Stella Duffy is an award-winning writer of seventeen novels, over seventy short stories and fourteen plays. In 2016 she received the OBE for services to the arts. Stella is also a psychotherapist working in private practice and for a low-cost community mental health service. She is currently completing her doctorate in Existential Psychotherapy, researching the embodied experience of postmenopause. Her website is: www.stelladuffy.blog