Gill BarrGill Barr was born in Londonderry in 1964. She taught English at comprehensive schools in Cambridgeshire and Dorset for over thirty years. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University, Belfast and has received an award for her poetry fom the Northern Ireland Arts Council. Gill’s poems have been widely published and her debut pamphlet, The Price of Violence, was Highly Commended in the 2023 Mslexia Competition and she read the pamphlet at Worlds Apart, the inaugural event at the New Gate Arts and Culture Centre in Londonderry in 2024. Gill has performed at the Bridport Literary Festival and appeared at the Exeter Literary Festival in 2019 and 2021, and at the Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2022. Gill lives in Dorset and Derry/Londonderry. Read More Read Less