Elizabeth Miller, author of ‘Penumbra Poems about Dementia’, is a writer and teacher. The daughter of a librarian, with both parents as published authors, she has spent much of her life surrounded by books. At age three, she announced that her ambition was to be ‘a poem lady and drive round Ireland in a tractor’. Although she has enjoyed writing ever since, she has yet to climb aboard that Irish tractor! Recently, after her mother was diagnosed with dementia in 2015, Elizabeth rediscovered writing poetry on a range of themes as a way of processing difficult emotions. Her poem, ‘Distance’ was used in 2018 to create a short film commemorating the centenary of the WW1 Armistice. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTjh1bZ8rw) ‘Penumbra’ has been co-branded with the Rochester Diocese Anna Chaplaincy, to reflect the way in which it is being used across the Diocese as a valuable learning resource, to support the spiritual welfare of older people.