Lydia Towsey is poet, performer, cat keeper, mother and ukulele strummer – with an MA in poetry and a primary school certificate in ‘tap dancing’. Previously shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize, she’s spoken and performed everywhere from London’s 100 Club, Roundhouse and the House of Lords – to ‘On the Buses’ (as Literary Leicester’s and Arriva Buses Poet in Residence), Plymouth University’s Zombie Symposium and in more basements, bunkers and boudoirs than Bela Lugosi.