Lorraine Dixon is a music teacher and a poet who enjoys sharing her work in print and in performance. She has read her work at Fire and Dust (Coventry) and for Writing on the Wall’s Writers’ Bloc (Liverpool). She uses her poetry to explore the multiple elements of her identity as an older Northern Black British working class woman. Lorraine has had poems published in the ‘Train River Poetry: Anthology Summer 2020’ (Train River, 2020) and ‘Geography is Irrelevant: poetry in isolation’ (Stairwell Books, 2020).

Lorraine’s poem The Leaving appears in anthology Where We Find Ourselves.