Jamie was born in York (1978), and brought-up in the Ryedale villages of Beadlam/Nawton. He has spent most of his life in Yorkshire and the North-East of England, having lived and worked in Scarborough since 2007. Educated at Terrington Hall Prep School, Durham School, Hull University, and currently Arts University Bournemouth; one exchange year was based in Canada at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia). He was the recipient of a Society of Author’s Award 2022, and a Rocaberti Writer’s Scholarship 2025. Part One of a Trilogy project, Plan 103f is his first novel. Inspired by the imagination, actual lived experience, and from broken dreams. Squirrels of Destiny being Part Two...Equilibrium set to be Part Three. Something of an amateur musician with young family, he is at home with the Creative Arts.