Clare Proctor has had poetry in publications including Shooter, The North and Finished Creatures and in anthologies including the Frogmore Press and the Handstand Press Anthology of New Cumbrian Writing - This Place I Know. She came second place in the Canterbury Festival competition in 2018 and in the Ware competition 2021. She lives in Cumbria where she teaches English and is a
member of Brewery Poets. She tweets @almostasif