Mez packer biography
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Mez Packer
English novelist
Mez Packer is an English novelist. She is the author of Among Thieves and The Game Is Altered and lectures at Coventry University.
Mez packer biography
Biography
Packer was born in Essex, England[1] and spent her early years amongst the Plymouth Brethren, in Essex.[2] She attended Warwick University from 1984 to 1988, gaining a degree in Philosophy and literature.[2]
From the late 1990s to 2003, she worked as a web designer, BBC broadcast journalist and content producer.[citation needed] She continues her work in Internet media and communications.
Racism is a theme central to her first novel, Among Thieves, published in 2009.[3][4]Cathi Unsworth of The Guardian praised it as "a highly original debut".[3]
Her second novel, The Game Is Altered, in the speculative fiction genre, was published in 2012.
She describes it as "a hybrid literary form".[5]
She is senior lecturer