Mark Kensson has lived in and around Sheffield since 1980. After spending seven happy years training and working at Cliff College in the Peak District, he and his wife, Angela, moved into the city proper, where he completed a degree in Modern History and Politics at the University of Sheffield. Thereafter he trained as secondary school teacher and spent the next twenty nine years honing his rapier-like wit on the unsuspecting youth of Derbyshire and South Yorkshire, whilst simultaneously wasting as much time as possible in the hills around his adopted city. To avoid marking books, he began writing Stuck in Traffic in 2005, but unlike most of his spectacularly over-ambitious projects, he got there in the end.

However, if you really want to know what motivate him to write, have a look at behind, above, beyond in his blogs