Christine Webb is a Midlander by birth, but has been an exile in the south of England for much of her life. She had a career in schools until the mid-1990s, and since then has taught part-time in the Drama department of Royal Holloway (University of London), worked for an A Level examination board and for a few years taught English at the LSE to international graduate students – an experience more different from teaching adolescents than anyone can understand who’s not tried both. Leaving full-time work made it possible to give more time to writing, and her first collection, After Babel, was published by Peterloo Poets in 2004.

In 2007 Christine won the annual Poetry London competition with her poem Seven Weeks, as well as being runner-up in the annual Mslexia competition with her poem Salt. She is now studying for an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) with Jo Shapcott and Andrew Motion, and is working towards her second collection, much of which will celebrate life with her partner, who died in 2006. She is a contributor to A Twist of Malice (edited by Joy Howard, Grey Hen Press).

She has given readings in Leeds, Manchester, Norwich and York, in Essex and Cornwall and in various London venues. As well as writing, she does a bit of gardening, some walking, a fair amount of singing and theatre-going, occasional travelling and a great deal of talking and eating. She has no cat.

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and in the shop ...
collections -
"Catching Your Breath",
Cinnamon Press;

"After Babel",
Peterloo Poets;

 anthology -
"A Twist of Malice",
Grey Hen Press

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