The Purpose of Your Vist was highly commended in the 2007 Book & Pamphlet Competition.

River Wolton grew up in London and lived in Sheffield for twenty years before moving to North Derbyshire. She works as a writer in schools, libraries and community projects, and is currently Derbyshire Poet Laureate. Her poems, non-fiction and reportage have appeared in a number of publications. She is one of six Poets With a Kick, and with them co-authored the creative non-fiction anthology, Some Girls’ Mothers (Route, 2008).