Jude Neale has written twelve collections of poetry, and is an opera singer, mentor, educator, workshop organizer and facilitator, mother, grandmother, and wife. She first published when she was eight, winning a youth competition on travel for the CBC, and has been writing professionally since 2006. Her book, A Quiet Coming of Light, was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Award and her manuscript, Splendid in its Silence, won publication in the UK. Jude’s poem, Blue Bowl, was finalist for the prestigious Irish Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Award, and her poem, Emptiness in the Garden, was chosen by Britain’s Poet Laureate, Sir Andrew Motion, to ride the buses in the Channel Islands for a year. Jude frequently collaborates with artists from many disciplines, bringing her command and sensitivity of language to their communal creations.