With a background in journalism, Bridget became a lecturer at Goldsmiths College – the leading creative university of the UK - just two years after graduating from the MA creative writing programme. She has taught at many locations in south east England and been Writer in Residence for a medical charity and an inspiring community centre serving the unemployed and low waged.Her own writing career was launched when she won first prize in an international short story competition and she was granted an Arts Council bursary to complete A Good Confession, a novel set in 1960s Ireland and London described by newspaper columnist Miriam Stoppard as “unputdownable”.