Fran Hill is an English teacher and freelance writer living in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire with her husband. She started her freelance career in the 1990s contributing regularly as a humour columnist and features writer for the national Christian newspaper Christian Herald and has often been published in Woman Alive and other religious publications. She has contributed many articles to TES (formerly the Times Educational Supplement), maintaining a monthly opinion column from 2008-2010 as well as supplying other features on education. She writes a regular blog, Being Me, and more information about her is available on her website at www.franhill.co.uk