Susan Elkin
A secondary English teacher for decades, Susan is now a full time author and journalist - among other things she is Education and Training Editor at The Stage. Her passions include donkeys, irises, colours, Anthony Trollope, onion chutney, Shakespeare, goats, words, ducks, Dvorak, bassoons and much more. She lives with her husband of many years and is the mother of two grown-up sons. Susan's latest book 'Please Miss We're Boys' tell the story of her hair-raising first five years in teaching when she was Danielle in the lions' den trying to cope with sex-crazed pupils in a challenging all boys' school in Deptford in 1968.
