Knipe, Vanessa

As a teen, Vanessa learned her loved of canoeing in the alligator infested bayous of the Texas Gulf Coast. Now back in her native Yorkshire, she watches the River Ouse rise every winter and wonder if she needs to revive an old skill: so far she and her son have been lucky. She juggles raising her son with wrestling the Creatures of the Night, though that's not a nice thing to call her cat. Currently, she is studying the preliminaries to what she hopes will be an MA in Creative Writing.