gemma weekes.
    novelist/ singer/ poet. 

(... writer.  mother.  musician.  lover.  fighter.  thinker.  goofball. romantic. alchemist.  giggler. poet.  thief.  dreamer. poser.  smarty pants.  woman.  child.  chocolate-lover...)

Gemma Weekes is a Taurean, a Londoner and the mummy of one particularly delightful toddler. She is also, to be slightly more coherent, an author (of course), a singer, a compulsive poet, a permanently budding guitarist and all-round scribbler who's debut novel, Love Me (Chatto & Windus, January 2009) has been greeted with splendiferous reviews in the Guardian ('a delight'), the Telegraph ('hits you where you feel it most') and the Independent ('a wonderfully assured debut') and has so far been translated into Dutch and Italian. She's performed and devised pieces for venues all over the UK and abroad: including The Jazz Café – where she appeared with Cody ChesnuTT supporting the Black-Eyed Peas - the Southbank Centre, Stratford East Theatre Royal, The Royal Festival Hall, the Albany, the Poetry cafe and at local dives too numerous to mention. Toured nationally with the Word Temple, directed by Amani Naphtali, and with Tell Tales. She has been published in several anthologies, including Kin (Serpants Tail), IC3 (Penguin) Red (Peepal Tree Press) and Tell Tales. Made various television and radio appearances in Saint Lucia for Nobel Laureate Week. Featured on Radio 1xtra, Radio 4's Bespoken Word and Resonance FM. She also collaborated with Nitin Sawhney on a piece for BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’. She is working on her second novel, tentatively entitled 'Rainbow Like You', and (and some other bits an pieces of various disciplines).

Check here for some music.

And, finally, Gemma Weekes says... buy the book! ;-)

P.S.:  reachme@gemmaweekes.com to say hey and let her know what you think!