| Deborah Siepmann grew up in Maryland and the San Francisco Bay area. She began her piano studies with Shirley Adams, and went on to be a piano performance scholar at the Universities of California and Wisconsin as a pupil of Robert Silverman. After coming to England she gave recitals in America, England, Europe and aboard to QE2. She has taught at Cobham Hall, Marlborough College, Cothill House and New College School, and now teaches at Tudor Hall in Oxfordshire. She is married to the musician and writer Jeremy Siepmann and they have two sons. In 1999 she began writing short stories and serials for The People’s Friend and in 2001 received the magazine’s Olwen Richards Award. Her first novel, Starlight Over Simla, was published in October 2007, by Robert Hale Ltd, London. |
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