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Gaia Holmes was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire.  Her debut poetry collection Dr James Graham’s Celestial Bed was published by Comma Press in 2006. 8 of her poems have been adapted to film by regional film makers. Her poem ‘Desires’ (dir: Kate Jessop) was shortlisted for a ‘Virgin Media Shorts’ award and has since been screened in cinemas and city squares throughout the country.
Gaia is a graduate of Huddersfield University’s English with Creative Writing BA, and has previously made a living as a busker, a cleaner, a gallery attendant, an oral historian, a lollypop lady , a poet in residence and a creative writing lecturer.

She is currently a freelance writer, a part-time lecturer and a DJ for Phoenix FM (her local community radio station) and is slowly gathering her dreams, ideas and favorite words and weaving them into the shape of a new collection.

Watch short films based on Gaia Holmes’s poems - ‘Exposure‘, ‘Beans‘, ‘Burger Man‘, ‘Claustrophobia‘ and ‘Archaeology‘.

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