Ros Barber is many things.
The daughter of a physicist and a special needs teacher, Ros Barber has a degree in biology (specialising in Evolution Theory and genetics) and three further degrees. In her twenties, she became a published poet, a computer programmer and systems analyst, then a smallholder (with beekeeping and poultry management qualifications). In her thirties, she was a freelance writer and creative writing tutor, a waitress and a night club administrator. In her forties, while working on the side as a trauma therapist, she completed a PhD in English Literature and wrote a prize-winning, critically acclaimed debut novel. Add in comedy training, neurodiversity (ADHD and prosopagnosia) and domestic abuse survival, plus carpentry, power tools, four children and a passion for convertible sportscars, and you get the full picture. Now? She is pulling it all together. In a polymath kind of way.