Di Slaney lives in an ancient farmhouse on the edge of Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, where she runs livestock sanctuary Manor Farm Charitable Trust and independent publisher Candlestick Press. She has a degree in English and European Literature from the University of Warwick and an MA in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University. Di was the winner of the Plough Poetry Prize 2022, and her poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, widely anthologised, and highly commended in the Forward Prize 2016 and 2026, Bridport Prize 2020 and Rialto Nature & Place Competition 2025. She is Poet in Residence at Nottinghamshire Local History Association. Di was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2019.

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