Lorna Gibb

Lorna was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire and used to work as a professional dancer. She has a PhD in Linguistics. She lectures part time at the University of Herts where she is Head of Creative Writing. In the past she's lived in four different countries but now lives in Hertfordshire with her husband, two rescue cats from Qatar, a rescue snow Bengal from Chichester and a melanistic savannah cat.

Lorna's latest book was published on Feb 7th 2019, called Childless Voices, it combines a global portrait of the childless and childfree with a memoir by the author of her own experience of infertility and childlessness.

Her debut novel A Ghost's Story was published by Granta in Nov 2015. Prior to this she wrote two biographies, West's World, on the fabulous Dame Rebecca West (Pan MacMillan) and Lady Hester on the wondrous Lady Hester Stanhope (Faber).

She is currently writing a book about some of the more esoteric languages of the world, and what we can learn from them, called Rare Tongues, for Atlantic Books.