Background
Celia Rees was born in Solihull, West Midlands and attended Tudor Grange Grammar School for Girls.
Celia Rees was born in Solihull, West Midlands and attended Tudor Grange Grammar School for Girls.
She studied History and Politics at Warwick University and has a Postgraduate Certificate in Education and a Master’s Degree in Education from Birmingham University.
She became a teacher after leaving university and taught English in comprehensive schools in Coventry for sixteen years and this is when she began to write. Her intention was to ‘write for teenagers, books that they would want to read, almost adult in style and content.’ She left teaching in 1989. After working part-time in Further Education and as an Open Studies Lecturer for Warwick University, she became a full time writer in 1997.
She has one daughter, Catrin, who is a lawyer in London.
Celia is a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation, is a member of the Society of Authors, and has been Chair of the Children’s Writers and Illustrators Group. She is a member of the Scattered Authors Society and a Fellow of the English Association.