Bio Diversity

Jeni Curtis is a mother, though frequently she needs to remind herself of this fact.

She is a retired, middle-class (though from an impeccable working-class background), sisgender woman, aging as gracefully as she can.

She still searches in vain for her lost youth, but, unfortunately, these days he is long gone, and may be, for all she knows, dead.

She has spent more years than are decent studying in the halls of academe but is grateful that proportion of her life shrinks with every passing year.

Over her life she has cohabited with many cats, but never more than three at once.

All dogs are now deceased.

Her mental health assistants include the man who mows the lawns each fortnight and her hairdresser (eight-weekly intervals).

If she were reborn, she’d like to be an archaeologist.

Jeni knits poems and embroiders prose.

At the end of her garden she grows honesty and forget-me-nots.