Shirley Nicholson
Shirley Nicholson has an enduring love for Scotland fostered by Scottish parents, childhood summers in Edinburgh with grandparents and special time with an artist aunt in the Dumfriesshire countryside – an aunt who initiated her continuing love for the Scottish islands. Her poems have appeared in various anthologies and magazines. One of her poems was chosen for Poems on the Move in 2021 and again in 2022 and she participated in two London Gardens’ poetry residencies. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester and served on the Poets and Players advisory group for a number of years. Shirley brought her aunt’s wartime diary to publication, The Milk Lady at New Park Farm, a diary about working on the land during World War Two.