Geoffrey Taylor was born in Gloucestershire, in the west of England, in 1963. At a village below the hill where the custom of cheese-rolling is raced. He first began experimenting in poetry at the age of twenty, which coincided with a first excursion to France. He started publishing his work in earnest in 1995. He has had his poems published in magazines such as 'Rubies in the darkness, ' and 'Awen'. Geoffrey won an international poetry competition with his poem, 'Unpractised'