Background
Her father, a metallurgist, also played trombone in a Manchester jazz band known as The Saints.
Her father, a metallurgist, also played trombone in a Manchester jazz band known as The Saints.
Oklahoma State University (Bachelor of Science, 1979). University of Texas (Juris Doctor, 1983).
Birch"s parents had met in a wartime armaments factory. She took English and American Studies at Keele University. Among the working-class writers to whom Birch acknowledges a debt are the fellow Lancastrians Shelagh Delaney and Louis Golding, and the Welshman Howard Spring.
Several of her novels have been translated into German, and Jamrach"s Menagerie into Romanian.
Birch also teaches creative writing and contributes reviews to a number of newspapers.
Travis County Bar Association. State Bar of Texas; Austin Young Lawyers Association. Litigation, Family Law, Civil Appeals.