Tessa West Author & Editor

Tessa West trained to be a primary school teacher though soon found herself working in prisons rather than in schools. She won a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship which enabled her to visit prisons in Scandinavia, and this experience opened up her career and led to her going on to study for two MAs. Since her retirement she has focused on writing. She received a grant from the Arthur Welton Foundation while writing her biography of John Howard the prison reformer. Lady Sue Ryder of Warsaw is her second biography.