Cheryl Pearson is the author of Oysterlight (Pindrop Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including The Guardian, Mslexia, Under the Radar, and Poetry NorthWest, and she has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has won or placed in competitions including the Cheshire Prize for Literature, the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, the Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Competition, the Keats Shelley Prize, and the Costa Short Story Prize. Her second collection, Menagerie, will be published by The Emma Press in 2019.