She is deaf, and her second novel, What Willow Says, won the Barbellion Prize for writers living with chronic illness or disability.
[2] Buckle was born in Bristol, England, and studied at the University of Warwick, Camberwell School of Art and NUI Maynooth.
[5] After writing it she offered it to several publishers before it was accepted by époque press, which she describes as "a fairly new UK indie company based in Cheltenham".
[4] Her second novel, What Willow Says, also published by époque,[6] won the 2022 Barbellion Prize for writers who live with chronic illness or a disability.
[7] In 2021 she was one of five writers to be virtual writers-in-residence in Norwich, England, during the COVID-19 pandemic, under the banner "Imagining the City".