Jan Carson: ‘I don’t want to be a writer, I want to write’

I came to writing quite late. I’ve always been a really big reader, I was the person in our family that took all of the library tickets, but I didn’t start writing until I was 25. I have no formal training, I learned from reading a lot and listening to other writers as well.

I first started writing when I moved to Portland in America. It is a big literary town and there was a ...