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Geraldine Paine was born and bred in London, is married and now lives in east Kent. She’s been a professional actress, a specialist writer, teacher, lecturer and a magistrate. She wrote her first poem when she was twelve. In 2000, she gained an M.Phil in Writing at the University of Glamorgan where she was lucky enough to be tutored by Sheenagh Pugh. Since then her poems have been published in The Interpreter’s House, Seam, The Rialto, Smiths Knoll, Connections, The French Literary Review, wanderingdog.com, Magma, Envoi, Soundings, Equinox, THE SHOp, Agenda and The Frogmore Papers. She has been commended or shortlisted in several recent poetry competitions including the inaugural Open Poetry International Sonnet Competition, and her poems appear in the anthologies; Shape Sifting, published by Cinnamon Press 2007, Hand Luggage Only, published by Open Poetry 2008, and Buzz, published by Templar Poetry 2008. Her first collection, The Go-Away-Bird, is published by Lapwing Publications 2008. She is a founder member of Scatterlings, the Poetry Group.
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