Your Retreating Shadow

Rochelle Roberts is a writer and editor based in London. She is interested in writing about visual artwork, particularly by contemporary artists as well as artists associated with surrealism and modernism. She often writes personal essays about illness and loss. By day, Rochelle works for the arts publisher Prestel as Editor. She is also former Poetry Editor for the online magazine Le Document, run by artists Harry Pye and Chris Tosic, as well as being Co-Editor of Living Artists, which she founded with her sister Toni Roberts.Rochelle has an MA in Creative Writing and Publishing from City, University of London and a BA in English Language and Creative Writing from Westminster University. She has been mentored by the poet and critic Rebecca Tamás and has completed a poetry course at Faber Academy taught by Richard Scott and Maurice Riordan. Her debut pamphlet is forthcoming with Broken Sleep Books in 2022 and she is currently working on a non-fiction book about grief and loss. She is represented by Emma Leong at Janklow & Nesbit (UK).