Gabriel GriffinGabriel Griffin, poet and writer, after a childhood in Wales and living in various European cities, is the only permanent lay inhabitant on a small and historic lake island dominated by a monastery of Benedictine nuns. She is founder (2001) and organser of Poetry on the Lake events on Lakes Orta & Maggiore (poetryonthelake.org) where guests have included Al Alvarez, Anne Stevenson, Carol Ann Duffy, Imtiaz Dharker, Gillian Clarke, Jo Shapcott, James Harpur, Penelope Shuttle, Brian Patten.Her poems are widely prized and placed, published in Temenos Academy Review, Orbis, Scintilla Journal, Private Photo Review, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Art Ascent, Empty Nests (Picador) and in Romanian and Italian. Author: A pilgrimage from Orta to Varallo with Samuel Butler (Wyvern Works 2010); St Giulio's Isle, (Wyvern Works 2015); Videotape (Hoepli, Italy);her novel The Monastery won 2nd prize Yeovil 2017; various handbooks for use in seminaries at the Venice Biennale, and articles on folklore and fashion.www.gabrielgriffinpoet.com Read More Read Less