Colin Bell was born in a Franciscan convent in Surrey but grew up in Sussex - everything that he has done, he did for the first time in Brighton. After half a lifetime in Manchester working for Granada Television, he returned to Sussex and now lives in Lewes, the urban equivalent of BBC Radio Four.

At Granada, after working in every department from politics to light entertainment, he became a producer-director of arts documentaries and then Executive Producer , Music and Arts making arts series for ITV and Channel Four. His television credits include Celebration, God Bless America, My Generation, Menuhin's Children and It Was Twenty Years Ago Today.

He has fond TV memories of writing scripts for Kenneth Williams, unwittingly asking Sir Lawrence Olivier to find him a transistor radio, being the regular voice of "sneering authority" on the investigative journalism series World In Action and setting the music questions for University Challenge. He is also proud of writing three children's books (published by Novello's) to accompany the Early Reading series, Story World and of working with most British rock bands from The Beatles to Oasis.

Following an urge that would never go away, he gave up television deciding that he had to try to become a full-time writer and thus fulfill his life's ambition.

Whilst working on his novel and a number of short stories, he suffered a brain haemorrhage that was meant to kill him but failed. Described as the neurologist's "miracle patient", he made a full recovery whilst discovering the virtual world of Second Life and a previously unexpected ability to write poetry.

He adopted a wolf's persona, when his cyber name, Wolfgang, was "affectionately" lengthened to wolfiewolfgang when he was arts editor of the online men's fitness magazine Mansized and he still answers to the name Wolfie in various writers' communities in Second Life and on his website http://www.wolfiewolfgang.com where he writes a daily blog.

His poetry has been published in the UK and the USA by The Blotter, The Fib Review, Every Day Poets and Inspired Words. His short stories have been performed by the White Rabbit theatre company in London and published by Ether Books. He is a Writers' Village Best Writers' Award winner and has given poetry readings in the UK and the USA.