Senseless

About Anna Lickley

Annas adult life has been moulded a great deal by challenges on her physical health and needing to adapt to them. She was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) in the 1980s when she was 16. NF2 is a complex genetic illness involving benign tumours developing on nerves throughout the body usually in the brain or spine. As a result she went deaf whilst at University and began to learn British Sign Language to help with communication. She loved the language immediately and went on to became fluent enough to teach it.In the last 5 years Annas vision has deteriorated and she is now registered deafblind. That and other health complications led her to stop working. Although sad to leave a job she loved she is now relishing having more time to write and much of her writing is greatly influenced by her desire to share the realities of living with disability.Anna wrote and self-published a semi-autobiographical novel called Catch it Anytime You Canin 2012 and has in mind a title and plot outline for a further novel. She is in-house writer for Can You Hear Us CIC a social enterprise dedicated to the needs of people with NF2 and also loves writing poetry short stories and articles. Senseless is her first full-length work of fiction.Outside of writing she loves horse riding and competes at dressage with the RDA (Riding for the Disabled Association)