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Fiona Pitt-Kethley is a British poet, novelist, travel writer and journalist. She was born on 21 November 1954. She lived for many years in Hastings, East Sussex, but currently lives in Spain with her husband, former British chess champion James Plaskett and their son, Alexander. She was her husband, James's phone-a-friend on January 21, 2006, when he was on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Her husband won £250,000 on the ITV quiz show.

She was educated at Chelsea School of Art and worked evenings as a theatre usherette at the Old Vic and National Theatre. Afterwards she worked as a teacher and film extra but was primarily a full-time writer. Her first major collection of poetry Sky Ray Lolly was published in 1986. Her work is characterised by her sexual frankness and humour.

Fiona Pitt-Kethley has also worked as a freelance journalist and has written for the Independent, the Big Issue and others.

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