Gaia Holmes

Gaia Holmes is an award-winning freelance writer and creative writing tutor who works with schools, universities, libraries and other community groups throughout the West Yorkshire region. She runs ‘Igniting The Spark’, a weekly writing workshop at Dean Clough, Halifax, and is the co-host of ‘MUSE-LI’, an online writing group. She has had three full-length poetry collections published by Comma Press: Dr James Graham’s Celestial Bed  (2006), Lifting The Piano With One Hand (2013), and Where The Road Runs Out (2018) and Tales from the Tachograph, as well as a collaborative work with Winston Plowes (Calder Valley Poetry, 2017). She is currently turning her attention towards writing short stories. In Feb 2023 was awarded the Arts Foundation Futures Award for Place Writing. In November  2024, she will bring out her first collection of stories with Comma: He Used to Do Dangerous Things.