Josephine Corcoran was born in Southport and moved to London when she was 12, to live with an older sister, after the death of her mother. She now lives in Wiltshire. An Arvon course when she was 30 started her writing and she was a mature student at Bournemouth and Chichester Universities before studying for an MA in Creative Writing at UEA. Her work as a short story writer and playwright has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and a stage play has been produced in London. Josephine is founder and editor of the online journal And Other Poems and works as a writer in schools and community settings. Her pamphlet, The Misplaced House, was published by tall-lighthouse in 2014 and What Are You After? is her first full collection of poems.