Deborah Alma

Deborah Alma (otherwise known as the Emergency Poet) is a poet, editor and creative writing lecturer at Keele University. Her mission of bringing poetry to people who might not otherwise read it has led her to edit a number of popular anthologies, including Emergency Poet – An Anti-stress Poetry Anthology (Michael O’Mara, 2015).  Her own first full collection Dirty Laundry was published by Nine Arches Press in 2018.