Geraldine Ann Ford, Author, Poet and Performer. She was born in Catford, southeast London and enjoyed growing up with five siblings. Her parents encouraged her love of the arts, especially literature, and she started writing poetry at the age of twelve. She had a column in a local paper in her twenty's and carried on writing in between working with special needs. She's had many poems published in magazines and her books are on Amazon. Geraldine enjoys performing her poems and monologues, especially her humorous material, in Kent and southeast London and regularly features on BBC Radio Kent and East London Radio.