Kristina Diprose co-runs the Rhubarb open mic in Shipley, and co-edited its anthologies Un/Forced and Seconds. She won the inaugural Oxford Canal Festival poetry competition in 2024, has been shortlisted in the Wolverhampton Literature Festival, Ginkgo Prize and Leeds Poetry Festival competitions, and was an Ilkley Literature Festival 2023 New Northern Poet. Thin Spells, her debut pamphlet, is forthcoming in September 2025 from The Black Cat Poetry Press. She is also working on a short story commission for Bradford 2025’s Wandering Imaginations project.
Instagram: @kristinadiprosWebsite: www.rhubarbwriters.co.uk