Cheryl is an award-winning writer, editor and publisher who has founded and developed a successful independent publishing company, Aurora Metro Books, for over 25 years. She established The Virginia Prize for Fiction which promotes emerging women novelists from around the world and a charity to manage arts and education projects.

She began her career in television and film at the BBC and went on to teach film to undergraduates. She has produced and directed corporate films and documentaries including Rock ‘n’ Roll Island which has been shown at festivals in the UK and USA and won a Gold Remi award from Houston Worldfest, the best Short Film Award from Covellite International Film Festival and was shortlisted for Best Short Film at Raindance, London 2015.

An award-winning playwright, in the 1990s she co-founded and ran The Women’s Theatre Workshop, developing and producing new plays by women and work in translation for readings and production on the London fringe.

In addition, she co-founded a highly successful Management Consulting company in 1998 with her husband Steve, and continues to be a Non-Executive Director on the board of both the UK and Asia-Pac companies. They also created a charitable foundation to help organisations which support or care for children.

She has two grown up daughters and has lived in Sydney, London, Singapore and the south of France.

www.cherylrobson.net