Publisher and poet Di Slaney lives on the edge of Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire where she runs Candlestick Press, one of the most distinctive and successful independent poetry publishers in the UK with its beautiful pamphlets designed to be sent 'Instead of a card'. She is also the founder of livestock sanctuary Manor Farm Charitable Trust. She was the winner of The Plough Poetry Prize 2022, and her poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, widely anthologised, and highly commended in the Forward Prizes in 2016 and 2026, Bridport Prize 2020 and Rialto Nature & Place Competition 2025. Her collections are available from Valley Press and Aftershock Review.