Cherise Saywell

Cherise Saywell grew up in Casino and studied at the University of Queensland. She worked in television production and academic research in Australia and the UK. Cherise began writing fiction after settling in Scotland and has since won the Royal Society of Literature VS Pritchett Prize (2003) and received third prize at the Asham Awards (2009), the UK's top short story competition for women writers, and features in the collection published by Bloomsbury. Her stories have also been short-listed for the Raymond Carver Prize and have appeared in The London Magazine, New Writing Scotland and Carve Magazine. She has been awarded two Scottish Arts Council Bursaries (2003, 2007). DESERT FISH is her first novel and Cherise, with the benefit of a gold dust mentorship, is now working on her second, TWITCHER (a synopsis is below). She lives with her partner and two young children.

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