The late Jay Green wrote verse, song, short stories, children's stories and general fiction throughout her life. In 2006 she was the winner of the Times Educational Supplement New Columnist of the Year Award. Much of her fiction was written in the mid 1990's after she first retired from the teaching profession. After the usual rejections from the established publishing industry at that time, I am pleased to finally make her work available to the wider audience that she always deserved. Ray Green.