Cecelia GrantPeters Biography

Cecelia Grant-Peters was born in her maternal grandmother’s house in Vermont, St Vincent & The Grenadines. She came to join her parents in Berkshire, United Kingdom as a baby, and was educated in Langley, Berkshire, at Marish Primary School and Holmewood County Secondary School. After graduating from the Langley College of Further Education with a degree in Business Studies. She went on to study for a Postgraduate Degree in Criminal Justice at Essex University.
She wrote her first rhyme during a school project at the age of about 7, and never stopped writing. Her father encouraged her to keep everything she writes and to date them, and she did. All her works going back to childhood are dated and stored in a treasured memory box at her home. Since the age of 12 she has regularly contributed to magazines and journals and has had numerous publications on radio and local press. She joined the Slough Writers Group in her early teens, contributing to teen magazines until she was old enough to become a fully pledged member at the age of 17.
Cecelia ¬married and has divorced, and raised two sons. She worked for many years as a Paralegal, dealing with Matrimonial, Family, Child Protection and Criminal law and confesses to being 'shockproof' after her years of Court room attendances and preparing legal papers and Briefs to Counsel.
In 2011 Cecelia became a volunteer for London based charity Kids Company, and started poetry workshops in many schools and worked voluntarily over the whole summer, launching her self-styled and much publicised ‘Summer of Love’ raising awareness of children’s suffrage.
She now runs her own business, Bardess of Langley, from her home in Langley, Berkshire doing Poetry Workshops and Readings for schools, colleges, universities and other organisations. Although she was a Paralegal for many years the writing has been a constant fixture. A review of her current book, The Rage In Albion (after the poem of the same title) has been published in the Criterion Literary Journal and Rock Pebbles of India. She is a regular contributor to Glow Magazine and was the author whose poem became the launch poem for the 2011 Royal Berkshire Poetry Competition, where she was asked to be a Judge, after her poem ‘The Rage In Albion’ was published in Beat Magazine. Cecelia is now working on her fourth book of poetry, as yet untitled.