Bloodlines

Sarah Wimbush comes from Doncaster and currently lives in Leeds. Her poetry is rooted in Yorkshire with tales of childhood, colliery villages, and Gypsies and Travellers. Her work has been published in a variety of poetry magazines and anthologies, as well as being awarded first prize in the Red Shed Poetry Competition (2016), and second prize in the Ledbury Poetry Competition (2019). A winner of both the Mslexia Poetry Competition (2016) and the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition (2019), she received a Northern Writers’ Award in 2019. Her debut pamphlet Bloodlines (Seren 2020) explores her Gypsy/Traveller heritage.