Ella Frears is a poet and artist based in London. Her debut collection Shine, Darling (Offord Road Books) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. She is a trustee and editor for Magma poetry magazine. Ella's poem Fucking in Cornwall was commended in the National Poetry Competition and her poems about the St Ives Modernists are currently on show at Tate St Ives.