Sophia Blackwell is a performance and page poet with 15 years' experience of the live poetry circuit. Having spent years selling home-made CDs, Sophia self-published her first collection of poetry. Her next two collections were published by Bristol-based indie publisher Burning Eye. Her third collection The Other Woman was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. Sophia's poetry has been anthologised by Bloodaxe, Nine Arches and The Emma Press. She lectures at the Oxford University Faculty of Continuing Education on the Creative Writing programme and she is a former Chair of Poetry London.