Julia Webb is a neurodiverse writer and artist from a working class background. She has three poetry collections with Nine Arches Press: Bird Sisters (2016), Threat (2019) and The Telling (2022). She has a first class honours degree in creative writing from Norwich University of the Arts and a poetry MA from The University of East Anglia. She has had two poems highly commended in the Forward Prize (2016, 2022). Julia has taught creative writing for organisations such as Lapidus, MIND, Norfolk County Council, and The SAW Trust. She currently runs real world and email poetry courses, and mentors for The Writing Coach. She is steering editor for Lighthouse – a journal for new writers. She lives in Norwich.