Vanessa Lampert has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University and Poetry School London, graduating in 2019. In 2020 she won the Café Writers Prize and the Ver Prize and came second in the Fish Prize. She has been published in a number of magazines including Magma, The Moth and The Interpreter’s House. She co-edits The Alchemy Spoon.

Vanessa lives in Oxfordshire where she works as an acupuncturist. This is her first pamphlet.