Siobhan Logan is a storyteller, poet and small press publisher with Space Cat Press, as well as a lecturer in Creative Writing at de Montfort University. Her first collection of poems and non-fiction, ‘Firebridge to Skyshore: A Northern Lights Journey’, (Original Plus Press 2009) was sponsored by auroral scientists at the University of Leicester. Researching it took her to Norway to experience the Northern Lights and the Arctic world at a time of change. This work was performed at the British Science Museum, the National Space Centre and the Ledbury Poetry festival.
‘Mad, Hopeless & Possible: Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition’, a poetic account of a polar expedition to Antarctica in 1914-17, was also published by Original Plus Press. She toured UK science festivals as part of the Polar Poets duo, including the British Science Festival in 2011, with a show exploring the Arctic and climate change. She led a WW1 residency for 14-18 NOW and co-edited 'Over Land, Over Sea', Five Leaves Books' anthology for refugee solidarity.
In 2015, her poetic sequence about the Rosetta mission, ‘Philae’s Book of Hours’ , was published on the European Space Agency website. Her latest collection about two rocketeers behind the Space Race was published by Space Cat Press in 2019: ‘Desert Moonfire: The Men Who Raced to Space’. She has co-edited anthologies of space-themed literature for Space Cat Press and teaches Creative Writing at Æß²ÊÖ±²¥.