Shani Cadwallender is a queer, working-class, ‘mixed-race’ woman from Northeast England who currently lives in London. She teaches English, writes poetry and is studying part-time towards a CHASE-funded PhD at Birkbeck UoL. This creative-critical project is about trees and identity in the poetry of three ‘marginal’ nineteenth-century women poets, linking their works to contemporary ecopoetics through creative interventions. She has been published by Dreich, Ink, Sweat & Tears, and the 87 Press’ magazine, The Hythe, amongst others.