Geraldine Clarkson lives in Warwickshire. Her work has appeared in journals inter-nationally, including Poetry (Chicago), and she has performed her poems at the Royal Albert Hall, the Poetry Society AGM, and at various festivals and other poetry venues in the U.K., Ireland and the U.S. She is the grateful recipient of several Arts Council England awards and her work is influenced by her Irish roots and years spent in a silent monastic order. She has two chapbooks with Shearsman, and a first full collection, Monica's Overcoat of Flesh, from Nine Arches Press (2020).