Chrissie Glazebrook (1945–2007)

Chrissie Glazebrook was born in Lichfield, England. She was adopted as Christine Ann Wright as a baby and brought up in the industrial region of the Midlands known as the Black Country. She was educated at Cannock Grammar School and then did a secretarial course. In the late 1960s, she married Terry Glazebrook and moved to Scarborough; the couple later divorced. During this period, she held various jobs, including in a zoo and managing a vegetarian restaurant. She also worked at the Stephen Joseph Theatre.
From 1982 to 1990, she worked as a freelance writer and broadcaster and her short stories, poetry, and journalism were widely published in magazines and newspapers and broadcast on the radio. She produced Flavour of the Month, a cooking program, for Tyne Tees Television (now ITV Tyne Tees), and also was a presenter on the network.

In 1991, she became an arts administrator at Northern Arts. She was one of the founders of ProudWORDS, a gay and lesbian literature festival.

In 1998, she completed a master's degree in creative writing at Northumbria University.
Her comic debut novel, The Madolescents, was published in 2001. Blue Spark Sisters appeared in 2003. Glazebrook died at age 62 from cancer.