An instructive, educative, and revealing interview with Author, Poet, Journalist and Blogger: Mary Smith.

FP: You describe yourself as an author, poet and journalist but, from all these three designations, which do you think defines you most of all?

Mary: I think it all depends on what I am working at the time! It’s probably the combination of all three which defines me. 

FP: Can you please give my readers a short biography about yourself?

Mary: I grew up in south west Scotland. When I left school I went to work in a bank. My mother had a dream I would become the country’s first female bank manager but I very soon realized this was not for me. I hated working with numbers. I travelled in Europe for a while and, on my return I started working with Oxfam in England.

My job was a combination of fundraising and trying…