2/ Profiles

Sally Cameron was born in Leeds in 1961. Her last year at Keele University was overshadowed by the diagnosis of a severe illness, but she graduated in 1983. Moving to London, she worked as a nursing auxiliary until her illness forced her to retire. It was then that she started writing short stories, a number of which have been published during the time the current text has been in preparation. See Walking, in Short Circuits, edited by Melanie Silgardo, published by Virago. Sally also created and tended a community garden which won a European-wide competition as an oasis in the midst of the squalor of London's East End, and she took up (informally) the position of housing co-op 'counsellor-in-residence'. Sally's sudden death on 10 June 1996 was devastating to her family, her many close friends and all who knew and loved her. See chapter 10.