Tana Collins

Tana Collins is a crime fiction and mystery author from Yorkshire that grew up in rural East Sussex. As a teen, she went to the Polytechnic of North London during the 1980s and graduated with a degree in Social Science. Her dissertation was on the right to free speech and following in the same vein, she went on to pursue a similar course in her master and doctorate studies. She got her MPhil from St Andrews and went to the University of Ontario for her Philosophy MA. Collins first got interested in crime fiction when she read the “DCI Banks” series by Peter Robinson, which is what got her obsessed with crime fiction. During this time, she also went to see a presentation on the life of Ian Fleming and it was after this exhibition that she got the motivation to become a crime author. However, it was not until a decade later that the novel would be published. For the past two decades, she had been working as a stress management consultant and massage therapist in Scotland. When she is not working or writing she can be found having afternoon naps, or out with binoculars watching and observing butterflies.