Kathryn Bevis is a poet and poetry teacher, former Hampshire Poet Laureate, and founder of The Writing School Online. She was the Selected Poet for Magma (the Solitude issue) and her poems have appeared widely in magazines and journals, including: Poetry Wales, Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The London Magazine, and Mslexia. Kathryn’s poems have won the Poets & Players Competition, the Against the Grain Competition, co-won the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society Member’s Competition, and won first and second prize in the Second Light Poetry Competition. She designs and delivers poetry workshops for adults online and in mental health settings, substance-misuse recovery settings, and prisons. Flamingo is her debut pamphlet, published by Seren.