She worked in banking and financial journalism in London and New York until 2004 when she discovered her talent for writing poetry. She’s now doing a Phd at The University of Glamorgan, publishing widely in magazines and picking up prizes, most recently a winner in this year’s Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition judged by Carol-Ann Duffy. That So-Easy Thing was launched by Smith/Doorstop last week. A second pamphlet is due from Salt later in the year. She talks here about how food feeds her poetry, what’s really going on in her ‘relationship poems’ and the parallels between mathematics and poetic construction.