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Sara Maitland
Sara Maitland is a novelist and short story writer. She grew up in Galloway, studied at Oxford University and currently tutors on the Distance Learning MA in creative writing for Lancaster University and was the mentor coordinator for Crossing Borders. She has undertaken writer residencies at HMP Ashwell and at Lincoln Cathedral. Her first novel, Daughters of Jerusalem, was published in 1978 and won the Somerset Maugham Award. This has been followed by several more novels including Three Times Table (1990), Home Truths (1993) and Brittle Joys (1999), and one co-written with Michelene Wandor – Arky Types (1987). Her non-fiction on religious subjects includes A Big-Enough God: Artful Theology (1994), Novel Thoughts: Religious Fiction in Contemporary Culture (1999), and Awesome God: Creation, Commitment and Joy (2002). She has also written Vesta Tilley (1986) and, with Peter Matthews, a book about gardening – Gardens of Illusion (2000). Her most recent books of non-fiction are A Book of Silence (2008) and Stations of the Cross (2009). Her short stories are regularly broadcast and collections include Telling Tales (1983); A Book of Spells (1987); On Becoming a Fairy Godmother (2003), a collection of magical realist tales about middle age; and Far North (2008). A film based on the title story, Far North, has been released, directed by Asif Kapadia and starring Sean Bean and Michelle Yeo.