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Biography


Moira McPartlin is a Scot with Irish roots. She began writing and attending creative writing classes at  Strathclyde University in  Glasgow in 2000 as a release from a busy career in Finance.   She writes shorts stories and poetry and has had work published in Storie, The People’s Friend, and The Scottish Mountaineer.  In 2006 she won the Mountaineering Council for Scotland annual poetry competition and for the past three years, has regularly contributed book reviews and articles to www.laurahird.com.  She resigned from a global position in Shell Oil in October 2005 to concentrate on writing her first novel Torque which was completed in July 2007.  She is currently working on her second novel and developing her website.

Moira has two adult sons and lives in Stirlingshire with her husband.  She is a keen mountaineer and in 2006 compleated her round of Munros (Scottish mountains over 3000 feet high).