Michelle Rawlins

After working as a journalist for 25 years, writing real life stories, for the women’s magazines & national newspapers, I began teaching at the University of Sheffield - a job I love with all my heart.

Around the same time, I finished writing Women of Steel, after spending two years researching this incredible generation.

I’m currently writing a series of historical fiction books on this remarkable band of women, who sacrificed so much, by taking highly dangerous and physically relentless roles in the Sheffield steel factories, during WW2, to ‘do their bit’.

When I’m not teaching or writing, I have two amazing kids and a crazy cavapoo, who are all very apt at keeping me on my toes.

There’s not a day that goes by, when I don’t remind myself how lucky I am to get to this position.