Anne Osbourn is a poet and professor of biology at the John Innes Centre, Norwich. Her first poetry book Mock Orange was a winner in the 2018 Sentinel Poetry Book Competition, and her other poems have been published in poetry magazines including The Rialto, Orbis, The Lighthouse, Smiths Knoll, Amberflora, Steel Jackdaw, The Ekphrastic Review, as well as in a variety of international science journals. Poems commended/shortlisted in competitions include the York Literature Festival, the Flambard Poetry Prize, the Second Light Poetry Competition, and the National Poetry Competition. She has always been drawn to the natural world, and in Rockall, her professional and poetic interests find exuberant expression.

Anne Osbourn is a poet and professor of biology at the John Innes Centre, Norwich. Her first poetry book Mock Orange was a winner in the 2018 Sentinel Poetry Book Competition, and her other poems have been published in poetry magazines including The Rialto, Orbis, The Lighthouse, Smiths Knoll, Amberflora, Steel Jackdaw, The Ekphrastic Review, as well as in a variety of international science journals. Poems commended/shortlisted in competitions include the York Literature Festival, the Flambard Poetry Prize, the Second Light Poetry Competition, and the National Poetry Competition. She has always been drawn to the natural world, and in Rockall, her professional and poetic interests find exuberant expression.