Mary King is relatively new to writing poems seriously. She was brought up in Tower Hill and was a Science teacher there and in Hackney. With no time for what had been her favourite subject at school she took her students to the theatre and on school trips to Italy. She is married with children and grandchildren. Mary joined a writing class when paid work finished and this spurred her on to begin to learn the craft and to write more regularly. She now lives in Staffordshire and is working with Keele Poets at Silverdale.