M J Anderson
M J Anderson was born in Gibraltar in the 1960s and spent many years living and working in Kent, England where she still has many family members and friends. Jackie, as she is known to most, works as a freelance writer and journalist, contributing to numerous print and online publications. She writes on a wide variety of subjects, from parenting to business development, from health issues to local history, from exploring local culture to delving into the world of technology. However, poetry and...See more
M J Anderson was born in Gibraltar in the 1960s and spent many years living and working in Kent, England where she still has many family members and friends. Jackie, as she is known to most, works as a freelance writer and journalist, contributing to numerous print and online publications. She writes on a wide variety of subjects, from parenting to business development, from health issues to local history, from exploring local culture to delving into the world of technology. However, poetry and fiction are her favourite forms of writing and she has won a number of awards for both her poems and short stories. Jackie is involved in supporting the development of creative writing in Gibraltar through Gibraltar Writers. She has served on a panel of judges in a poetry competition and from time to time runs workshops on various aspects of writing. The telling of ghost stories was a favourite activity in Jackie's family on those intensely dark nights of winter before the world glowed with computers and mobile phones and more street lights than ever before. She recalls huddling in a darkened bedroom with her sisters, telling creepy tales to explain the creaks and groans of the century-old house where they grew up; picking her way through old graveyards wondering if the old yew trees at the entrance really could keep the spirits of the restless dead from wandering towards the nearby houses; and many fun times taking her own children on 'ghost treks' into the Kent countryside, or trick-or-treating around the town where they lived. She is currently researching local ghost stories to fuel more ideas for a second volume of chilling tales for winter nights. See less
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