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Myra Schneider

```Myra Schneider``` is a British poet. She grew up in Scotland, London, and Sussex and read English at London University. She has worked for an educational publisher and as a teacher in a comprehensive school and a tutor to people with literacy problems, as well as working for many years with severely disabled adults. She lives in London with her husband, a retired computer consultant, and they have one son.

After writing mainly fiction for some years, Myra Schneider had her first collection of poetry (``Fistful of Yellow Hope``, Littlewood) published in 1984. In addition to many poems published in magazines, newspapers and anthologies, 11 other poetry publications have appeared since then: ``Cat Therapy`` (1986), ``Cathedral of Birds`` (1988) and ``Crossing Point`` (1991), all from Littlewood; ``Opening the Ice`` (1990, Smith Doorstep) with Ann Dancy; ``Exits`` (1991), ``The Panic Bird`` (1998), ``Insisting on Yellow`` (2000), ``Multiplying the Moon`` (2004) and ``Circling the Core`` (2008), all from Enitharmon; and ``Becoming`` (2007) from Second Light Publications. The poem “Goulash” from ``Circling the Core`` was shortlisted for a Forward Prize for best single poem, and two sequences from this collection won first prizes in ``Scintilla`` competitions. Her work has also been broadcast.

In addition, Myra Schneider has written ``Writing My Way Through Cancer``, a fleshed out journal with poem notes, poems and therapeutic writing ideas (Jessica Kingsley, 2003), and, with John Killick, ``Writing for Self-Discovery`` (Element Books, 1998) and ``Writing Your Self`` (Continuum, 2010). She also writes essays and reviews for literary magazines, and has co-edited anthologies of poetry by contemporary women poets, most recently ``Images of Women`` (Arrowhead, 2006). She is consultant to the Second Light Network of Women Poets, and she runs poetry workshops and courses and is a tutor for the Poetry School.

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