Caroline Price was born in Middlesex in 1956. She studied Music at York University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and has worked as a violinist and teacher in Glasgow, London, Kent and Suffolk, where she has lived since 2016.
 
She has published four collections of poetry, most recently Picnic on the rocks, with frog (Shoestring Press 2017). She is also co-editor, with Myra Schneider, of an anthology of women’s poetry, Four Caves of the Heart (Second Light Publications 2004). Her poems have won many prizes, and she has represented Kent in a European women writers’ exchange as well as undertaking commissions for Kent County and Medway Councils. She has a long-standing interest in the French language and culture and has been awarded residencies at the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar in northern France and Les Avocats du Diable Vauvert in the Camargue; she has also worked as writer-in-residence in secondary schools in Calais and Hazebrouck. More recently she has undertaken translation work for literary festivals in Brussels and Rotterdam.
 
She also writes short fiction, and in 2008 was a contributor to Fictions Européennes, an anthology of short stories by writers representing all the countries of the European Union. In recent years her stories have been short-listed for the Asham, Bridport and London Magazine awards, and in 2015 she was runner-up for the Society of Authors’ Tom-Gallon award for a short story.
 
She is a tutor for the Poetry School and regularly leads poetry workshops for Second Light.