Maria Roberts was born in 1977 in Manchester. She studied English and Spanish at the University of Manchester and has just graduated from the Creative Writing School at MMU. She lives in a small house full of junk on the outskirts of Manchester with Scratch, her very talkative six-year-old son. She has just completed her first novel.

Maria's story 'When Silence is the Only Thing You Leave Behind' appears in Bracket.
Maria's story 'By the River' appears in Phobic.