LG Surgeson was born in 1980 in Durban South Africa, but shortly afterwards found herself being whisked North to a childhood in Southern England. Leaving the comfort of the family home for a life in the wilds of West Wales, she studied Physics and Maths at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth before qualifying as a teacher in 2004. Since then, she has been gainfully occupied trying to convince teenagers that maths isn't evil and failing to move back out of West Wales and back to the real world. In the spare time she creates by not sleeping properly, she writes fantasy and fiction novels.