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Gill Learner was born and grew up near Birmingham but now lives in Reading. In 2001 she won a limerick competition run by the Independent. She stopped trying to write short fiction and began writing poems.

Her poems have appeared in competition anthologies such as The Thames in Verse (River Thames Society); Blinking Eye 2004, 2005, 2006; Poetry Ealing 14 (Pitshanger); My mother threw knives (Second Light Network); Outbox (Leaf Books). Journals to have published her include Poetry News, Smiths Knoll, Tears in the Fence, Orbis and Envoi, and she’s been read on Radio 3 and read herself on BBC1 South Today. She was Highly Commended in the Petra Kenney competition 2006 and shortlisted for the Keats-Shelley Prizes 2006 and 2007

Gill finds inspiration in family past and present, the natural world, all the arts but particularly music, and technologies such as printing. She is particularly fond of Reading’s monthly Poets’ Café which features guest poets plus an open mic session in which she always participates.

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