Doreen Hinchliffe is a retired teacher who comes from Yorkshire but has lived in London for many years. She has two previous poetry collections - Dark Italics (Indigo Dreams, 2017) and Substantial Ghosts (Oversteps Books, 2020). In 2011, her Christmas sonnet sequence, The Pointing Star, was recorded by Live Canon and included in their Poems for Christmas CD and her first novel, Sarabande in Blue, was published by Blossom Spring three years ago. Doreen has been the chair of Greenwich Poetry Workshop for many years and also belongs to the Poetry Society's Greenwich Stanza.