Vik Shirley is a UK, Bristol-based, poet. Her work has appeared in Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, Lunar Poetry and Ink, Sweat and Tears. She has also had poems published, via social media, by the Royal West of England Academy and the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, USA. In addition to this, in 2016, a reading of one of her poems was featured on Zoon van snooK’s Oddcast #3, ‘Eclectic Lady Land’.

Vik recently completed a BA (Hons) in English Literature with The Open University (passing with First-class honours) and is currently on the Creative Writing MA at Bath Spa University, where she is working on her first collection. Prior to all this she wrote music and sang as one half of electronic duo, Canola Tenderfoot. You can hear some of their music, read some of Vik’s published arts reviews and, more importantly, read some of her poetry, here on this website.