Tessa Foley is a writer originally hailing from Flitwick, a tiny town in Bedfordshire. She now lives in Portsmouth, working in the Creative and Cultural Industries Faculty at the University of Portsmouth where she previously gained her Masters Degree in Creative Writing. Published by magazines including Agenda, Antiphon, Dying Dahlia, Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review and Star & Crescent and recognised in the Verve Poetry Competition, Bristol Poetry Prize, Poetry Rivals Competition and long-listed in the 2015 National Poetry Competition, she also won the Live Canon International Poetry Competition in 2013, judged by Glyn Maxwell.