Eileen Ramsay

Born and raised in Dumfries-shire, in south-west Scotland, author Eileen Ramsay is a former schoolteacher turned novelist now living near Arbroath in Angus. She lived and taught in the USA for 18 years, in Washington DC and in California. She also taught and travelled with the children of Senator Eugene McCarthy during the 1968 American Presidential Election campaign trail.

She wrote her first novel – a ‘Regency Romance’ which now makes her wince “only a little” – in California, in between frequent trips to Mexico and raising her sons. She describes herself as a proud writer of “women’s commercial fiction”, and is currently Honorary Secretary of the Romantic Novelists’ Association.