Chris Considine taught English for several years at Bedford High School. After that she lived in rural seclusion in Upper Swaledale, North Yorkshire, for some time, but she has now moved to Plymouth and looks out at ships rather than sheep. As a young woman she lived abroad for a while, in Africa and Europe, and she continues to travel as she now has a son in Canada and a son in Australia as well as a daughter in Cornwall.
 
During the past twenty-five years she has enjoyed and benefited from attending poetry-writing courses at all four Arvon centres, Ty Newydd and High Green in Northumberland, and at the Poetry Business’s Writing School. At the beginning of 2004 she was a Hawthornden Fellow.
 
Her publications include St. Cuthbert and Bystanders (Redbeck Press 2001) and Swaledale Sketchbook (Smith/Doorstop Books 2002), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize (best first collection category) in 2002, and a recent pamphlet, The Island, was published by Wayleave Press in 2016. Her first full collection, Learning to Look, was published by Peterloo Poets in 2003 and her second, Quarll, also from Peterloo, came out in 2006. Following the closure of Peterloo, her third collection, Behind the Lines, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2011 and her fourth, In Search of Home, also by Cinnamon Press, in 2015.
 
Chris has had poems published in various magazines since the 1980s, and was the featured poet in Assent (formerly Poetry Nottingham) in November 2009. She has given readings in a number of places, including York, Richmond, Kendal, Oxford, Truro, Plymouth, Torbay and Bedfordshire, as well as in Italy, Ireland and Canada.