Holly Magdalene ScottJudi Sutherland was born in Stoke on Trent to Geordie parents, spent some time as a child in Northern Ireland, and since then has lived all over England from Sussex to Durham, as paid employment has dictated. She trained in Microbiology and Biochemisry at the Universities of Leeds and Nottingham respectively then pursued a career in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, developing new medicines. Judi obtained her MA in Creative Writing in 2012 at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she was awarded the Margaret Hewson Prize. Her poetry is mainly concerned with place, identity and belonging, and she has an interest in landscape and history - creating a 4D map of the places we inhabit. Following Teisa was written between 2014 and 2020, when she was living in Barnard Castle, County Durham.Her poems are widely published in magazines such as Oxford Poetry, Prole, The North, New Statesman, and online. She blogs at judisutherland.com. Her first pamphlet The Ship Owner's House was published by Vane Women Press in 2018. She is currently living in Malahide, North County Dublin, Ireland, with her husband and two rescue cats, where she is writing about her new surroundings, Fingal, the Land of the Fair Strangers. Read More Read Less