Roderic Vincent is an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, a writer and a musician. As a chartered psychologist he has helped to develop leaders in forty-one countries. He now mostly confines himself to walking the Shropshire Hills. His poems and stories have won prizes in competitions and been published in literary journals including Poetry Ireland Review, Stand and The Rialto, and in the Iron Book of New Humorous Verse. He writes the lyrics and plays bass as one half of O’Reilly & Vincent.