Ceri A. Lowe

Ceri A. Lowe was born in Neath, South Wales and writes short stories under the name of Ceri Lowe-Petraske.

When Ceri isn't writing, she's a self-employed project management consultant specialising in financial services. She lives in Bristol, England and has various obsessions including all things Spanish, the music of 1967, travelling and, of course, writing.

In the last two years she's won the Global Short Stories annual prize, the Flash 500 Award, the Story Star Publishing Prize, Exeter Short Story Proze and the Writers' Forum Short Story competition. She's also been placed and published in the Word Hut Short Story Competition; & Henshaw Prize. In 2013, she was also long-listed in the Bristol Prize, Rubery International and Lightship Publishing Awards.

She is the author of The Rising Storm, The Girl in the Storm and The Storm Girl's Secret, the three instalments of the Paradigm Trilogy, a dystopian YA series set in a post apocalyptic world.