Emma McGordon originates from West Cumbria and has worked all over England as a performance poet and workshop leader. She studied English Literature at the University of Liverpool and is also a journalist.

 

She featured as one of the six young poets in the Generation Txt UK poetry tour and anthology has two pamphlet collections; The Hangman & The Stars from Blacksuede Boot Press and Those Who Jump from Tall Lighthouse.

 

She has performed at Glastonbury, Latitude and Solfest as well as theatres, arts venues, pubs and poetry nights across the UK.

 

She was noted as one of the 12 writers to watch in 2008 by the Times online and is a winner of the Northern Young Writer of the Year award.

 

She believes literature is made up of everybody therefore everybody can make up literature. She thinks everybody has a story to tell and those who say they don’t usually have the most interesting stories.

 

Her creativity tends to be unexpected and jerky and she’s not one for sitting down and forcing herself to write, she believes the worst crime is to ignore the muse.

Emma is  one of the resident poets on the Apples & Snakes blog www.myplaceoryours.org.uk