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) as well as Tales from the Tachograph, a collaborative work with Winston Plowes (Calder Valley Poetry, 2017). More recently she has begun writing and publishing short fiction. In Feb 2023 was awarded the Arts Foundation Futures Award for Place Writing. In November  2024, she brought out her fiction debut with Comma, He Used to Do Dangerous Things.