Catherine Pestano Editor

Dr Catherine Pestano is a social worker and menopause activist. She has led two successful largescale workplace menopause programmes, for Croydon local authority and for the Open University, awarded two national diversity and innovation awards. Visiting Fellow at the Open University, she has authored on menopause for the OU Nursing programme. Cherry Potts is the author of an epic fantasy novel, The Dowry Blade, two collections of short stories: Mosaic of Air, and Tales Told Before Cockcrow; and has had many stories in anthologies, magazines and online. Cherry is the Director of Arachne Press, for whom she is editor of almost all their anthologies and runs the Annual Solstice Shorts Festival. Until recently she taught Creative Writing as a visiting lecturer at City, University of London.