Artist statement
I write nonfiction and poetry, exploring how our lives intertwine with other species, places, and histories.
My current projects include CYMA, a book-length hybrid text, mixing poetry, memoir and field recording. This project investigates the Cold War history of a site on the Norfolk coast, and its possible futures in the context of climate crisis. The site was used for early drone warfare, and I use it as a way to consider communication, the signals we send and receive, and what gets lost in translation.
My writing is often experimental, and during several years of chronic illness I turned to documentary writing methods as my life became more insular. These methods include drawing on diaries, records and daily rituals to respond to life as it unfolds, and led to my other major project in progress: an auto-fictional novel about burnout and migration during a summer of wildfires.
My previous publications include a long poem exploring transfixion and colonial histories in an art gallery, and a book of nature poems about unlikely creatures, from slime moulds to spookfish.
Across my creative work, I’m interested in how writing can trace the stories and systems that shape our everyday lives.
Artist biography
Short biography
Flo Reynolds (she/they) is a cultural strategist, writer, coach and facilitator. They are the author of peel me Watcher (Guillemot Press, 2025), girlhoof (Salò Press, 2024) and the other body (Guillemot Press, 2021). They have been a SPILL Think Tank Artist in Residence (2024) and an Arts Council England DYCP awardee (2023). Their website is floreynolds.com.
Long biography
Flo Reynolds (she/they) is a writer of poetry and nonfiction. Flo is the author of three books of poetry: peel me Watcher (Guillemot Press, 2025), girlhoof (Salo Press, 2024) and the other body (Guillemot Press, 2021). They have been a SPILL Think Tank artist in residence (2024), an Arts Council England DYCP awardee (2023), and have been listed in the Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize, Gingko Prize and Women Poets Prize. With fifteen years’ experience across the arts and culture industry, Flo mentors, coaches and teaches writers and creatives for various organisations including the Poetry School, as well as under their own tend studio. Alongside their creative practice, Flo works as a cultural strategist, evaluator and programme designer. Their website is floreynolds.com and their substack is tend notes.
Praise for my writing
“Flo Reynolds’ new collection is brilliant. I read the whole thing out loud and felt each word – both real and invented – sitting deeply in my chest.”
Lewis Buxton
“Immediately, I was immersed in a visceral, almost transformative experience of nature. […] the writing throbbed with energy […] really animated the natural world.”
JUDGES’ COMMENTS, WILD MUSE NATURE WRITING COMPETITION 2024 (SHORTLISTED)
“These are lyrics for anyone bewitched by the world and wanting to cast their own spells on it.”
Harry Josephine Giles
“Reynolds’ work […] is profoundly ecopoetic”
BILLY MILLS, reviewing the other body
“This is an assured, knowledgeable body of work.”
Jennifer A. McGowan, reviewing the other body
Flo Reynolds 