Author / Illustrator Profile
Theresa Tomlinson
Theresa Tomlinson was educated in Whitby and Hull where she attended Art School.
When she was young she wanted to be a ballerina and it wasn’t until she was a thirty one year old mother of two , that she began to write down stories she had made up to entertain her children.
Theresa is now a full time writer and lives in Sheffield with her husband, children and cat. Most of her stories are based around the Sheffield area, as is Meet me by the Steelmen.
Books include The Flither Pickers, Riding the waves, The Rope Carrier, The Cellar Lad, The Herring Girls, The Forest Wife, Haunted House Blues, Little Stowaway. Her latest title is Child Of The May.
Two of Theresa’s books appear on the Shortlist in 1998
Shortlisted Titles
1998 Meet me by the Steelmen
2001 Night of the Red Devil