Clare Colvin is a novelist, short-story writer, opera critic and journalist. She is author of three novels, The Mirror Makers, A Fatal Season and Masque of the Gonzagas. As a journalist she has edited an arts diary for the Observer, worked as a theatre critic for the Evening News and the Times, and was literary editor for the Sunday Express. Her short stories have been published in a number of anthologies, and often draw on her travels, including several months in India and Lebanon, where she raced as an amateur jockey. Having spent time living and working around the world, Clare now lives in London.