Barbara Hickson lives in Lancaster and is in her final year of study for an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poems have appeared in PoetryBay, Stravaig, Zoomorphic and Poetry Salzburg Review, and have been included in anthologies published by Beautiful Dragons Press, Corbel Stone Press, Cumbria Wildlife Trust and Numenius Press. In 2016 she was a prize winner in the Magma Editors’ Choice competition. She acts as rep for the Poetry Society’s Lancaster Stanza group.