"For every girl who's fat or thin or in between, "Massive" is terrific. Julia Bell's Carmen knows how it feels to want to scream but to grit your teeth instead."

-- Gail Giles, author of "Shattering Glass" and" Dead Girls Don't Write Letters."

Julia Bell was born in 1971 and brought up in Wales. She co-edited adult story collections Hard Shoulder (Tindal Street Press, 1999) and England Calling (Weidenfeld, 2001), and co-edited The Creative Writing Handbook (Macmillan 2001). She established the small press Pen & Inc at the University of East Anglia where she teaches Creative Writing.