Lou Wilford lives in South Yorkshire where she is currently working as a private tutor and freelance writer, and studying for a BSc in Psychology. She has had work published in many poetry magazines including The Stinging Fly, Agenda, The Coffee Room, Iota, OWP, Equinox, Staple and Aspire. She has been shortlisted twice for the Bridport Prize and once for the Templar Poets anthology competition. She is working on a fantasy novel.
Lou Wilford
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)