About

Kerry Burton-Galley is a working-class author, poet, artist and activist from Yorkshire. She has lived with M.E. since childhood and missed much of her formal education, but has been writing and drawing since she was old enough to hold a pencil. Creating has always been her way of making sense of her emotions, preserving her memories and coping with a world that too often feels harsh and unfeeling.

Her poetry and prose are psychologically observant, exploring trauma, grief, mental illness, obsession, and moral responsibility, often through intimate, confessional voices. Her work sits firmly in that claustrophobic space between tenderness and brutality. Dark, incisive, and wry, her writing speaks to outsiders, overthinkers, and those who've always lived deeply inside their own heads.