Deborah Tyler-Bennett is a poet and fiction writer. Over 400 of her poems and short fiction pieces have been published nationally and abroad. Deborah's current collections are Kinda Keats from Shoestring Press (2013), poems based on her residency at Keats House Hampstead, and a book of short fictions inspired by the music hall tradition, Turned Out Nice Again (King's England Press, 2013). Her collected poems are published in Clark Gable in Mansfield (2003) and selected poems can be found in Take Five edited by John Lucas (Shoestring Press, 2003), Pavilion (2010), Revudeville (2011) and Mytton … Dyer … Sweet Billy Gibson… (2011). Her poetry collection, called Anglo-Punk: Sonnets on the Life of Beau Brummell will be published in 2014 by Salmon Press. Her poems were recently translated into Romanian and broadcast on Radio Bucharest.

Deborah has promoted creative writing widely in the Leicestershire region. She co-authored several creative writing resources (with Mark Goodwin) for Leicestershire’s Open Museums and Artworks collections. She also produced an educational pilot, called The Ballad of Epping and Other Poems, to accompany the Artworks collection into schools.