'In my teens, I made sure the entire family knew about it by donning my writing trousers – jeans with quotes from Sylvia Plath scribbled on them.'

When I started writing in my teens, I made sure the entire family knew about it by donning my writing trousers – jeans with quotes from Sylvia Plath scribbled on them – and wafting upstairs to my writing desk. Years later, I wrote a poem about that desk.