Gabriella Gay is a mother, trained teacher, vintage dealer, page-stage poet and creative producer; she is regularly commissioned to perform, write, organise events and facilitate workshops for organisations such as Stoke Pride, The NHS, The Mitchell Arts Centre, Appetite Stoke, Junction 15, BBC Radio, Stoke Libraries, Partners in Creative Learning. She is born in Trinidad, raised in London, but has lived in Staffordshire for over 10 years. She is the founder of Stoke’s Roaming Poets and Kwanzaa Collective UK *. She was the local writer in residence for Nationwide voices (2017) and was shortlisted to be the first poet laureate of Stoke-on-Trent (2018). Gabriella has made numerus TV and radio appearances and her work features in shows, exhibitions, advertisements and official videos. She is interested amplifying the voices of overlooked people and places.

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