About the Author

Gill Learner was born and grew up in Shirley, just outside Birmingham. She moved south in the early 1960s and has lived in Reading for over four decades. In her middle years she began working in the printing trade and eventually taught Printing studies at Berkshire School of Art & Design until her retirement in 1999; it was soon after that she began writing poetry. She has been widely published in magazines and anthologies and her first collection, The Agister's Experiment was published in 2011, and Chill Factor in 2016.