She was a runner up in the 2nd Annual James Kirkup Memorial Prize and was selected for Verb New Voices, a BBC/ACE spoken word development programme, which culminated in the performance of her poem Songs from Whenever on BBC Radio 3s The Verb. She performs regularly at venues across the North East and at poetry festivals including StAnza and Durham Book Festival. She is co-editor of Butcher’s Dog poetry magazine and edits Deseeded an online poetry anthology. This poem will appear in Degna’s forthcoming pamphlet ‘Record and Play’ which will be published with Red Squirrel Press in April 2013. http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/