Joolz has been a professional writer, spoken-word performer and illustrative artist for over thirty years. She is also a professional working tattoo artist. She is an award-winning novelist and is considered to be the UK’s premier woman spoken-word artist, and has an international reputation for excellence in all her creative fields. Her critically-acclaimed third novel, ‘Billie Morgan’ was shortlisted for The Orange Prize for literature 2005 Her latest collection of poetry & short stories ‘Pray For Us Sinners’ (Comma Press) was released on October 3rd 2005. Her latest novel, ‘The Curious Mystery Of Miss Lydia Larkin & The Widow Marvell’ (Ignite Books 2011) has been praised as ‘unputdownable – more please!‘ and is available both in physical form and on Kindle.