Caroline Price grew up in Sussex and then Suffolk, where she still has strong family connections. She studied Music at the University of York, and violin at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She worked for the Scottish Ballet in Glasgow and then as a freelance musician and teacher in London before moving to Kent in 1986; she now lives near Tunbridge Wells, and works primarily for Kent Music.

A prose writer since childhood, she started writing poetry seriously in her late twenties, and her first collection, Thinking of the Bull Dancers, was published by Littlewood Press in 1987. At the same time she became actively involved with the well-established Kent & Sussex Poetry Society, and also helped found the London poetry group N7, whose members still meet regularly to discuss their work.

Over the years her poems have won many prizes and appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, and in 1994 a second collection, Pictures Against Skin, was brought out by Rockingham Press. She has read her work at a variety of venues and literary festivals, has undertaken commissions for Kent County and Medway Councils, and in 1997, together with the poet Maggie Harris, represented Kent in a European women writers’ exchange, participating in poetry readings and discussions in Kent, northern France and Belgium.

In 2004 she co-edited, with Myra Schneider, the anthology Four Caves of the Heart, featuring the work of 14 women poets (Second Light Publications, 2004), and more recently she has written the introduction to a new translation into English, by Anne-Marie Glasheen, of the work of the Luxembourg poet Anise Koltz (Arc Visible Poets).  In 2006 she completed a Diploma in French – satisfying another passion - with the Open University, and in 2007 was awarded a residency at the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar, a centre for European writers in northern France, to finish work on a third collection, Wishbone, which was published in November 2008 by Shoestring Press.

Her links with France were consolidated in 2008 with a spell as writer in residence at the Lycée Sophie Berthelot in Calais; and in the same year she contributed to Fictions Européennes, a bilingual anthology of short stories on the theme of Space commissioned from writers from all the European Union countries by the CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales), based in Paris.

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collections -
"Wishbone",
Shoestring Press

"Pictures against Skin",
Rockingham Press;

"Thinking of the Bull Dancers",
Littlewood Press

anthology (co-ed) -

"Four Caves of the Heart",
Second Light Publications

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