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Shelagh Watkins was born in Lancashire and, after graduating from the University of Leeds, moved to Scotland, where she completed a course in Information Technology at the University of Glasgow. She now lives in South Wales. Her first children's novel, Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine, was a top ten finisher in the Preditors and Editors Reader's Poll 2005.
One of her poems, Hope for a Safer Place, was chosen for inclusion in the anthology, Stories of Strength, published in November 2005.
Shelagh is also moderator of the Children's Fiction Board on the Internet Book Database Forums and group leader of the Children's Fiction Group on LibraryThing and a LibraryThing author.
Shelagh Watkins created the Published Authors Network on the Ning Social Network.