Rosalie Alston grew up in the Essex countryside, and now lives in Bristol, where she enjoys the community poetry scene, which is diverse and vibrant, with so many supportive poets. She has had poems published online and in print, including in Spelt and Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World. A number of her published poems are about adoption and fostering, and a poem about moving between foster homes was Highly Commended in a Poetry Space competition. She is thrilled to be in Kinship with this poem about friendship and family.
