Jamie was born in York (1978) and brought up in the Ryedale villages of Beadlam/ Nawton in rural North Yorkshire. Having lived and worked in Scarborough since 2007, he has spent most of his life in Yorkshire and North-East England. Recipient of two Society of Authors' Awards (2021 and 2022), he was educated at Terrington Hall Prep School, Durham School, Hull University, and currently Arts University Bournemouth. One exchange year was based in Canada. Inspired by the imagination, actual lived experience, and broken dreams, Squirrels of Destiny is part two of the duology; Equilibrium being part one. Something of an amateur musician with a young family, he is at home with the creative arts.