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Elizabeth Baines lives in Manchester. She has been a teacher and performer, is the prizewinning author of plays for BBC Radio and fringe theatre, and was co-editor and -publisher with Ailsa Cox of the short story magazine Metropolitan (1992-1997). Her own short stories have been published widely. Her first collection, Balancing on the Edge of the World, was published in 2007 by Salt, who also published her short novel Too Many Magpies (2009). In 2010 Salt reissued her first novel The Birth Machine which has been hailed as a feminist classic. Newly out from Salt is her second collection of stories, Used to Be, the themes of which, uncertainty and the power and tyranny of storytelling, are developed in her novel in progress, provisionally titled The Story Keeper, the beginning of which appears here.
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