Born in Staines, Middlesex, Shuttle left school at 17.
She married the poet Peter Redgrove (1932–2003) and they have a daughter, Zoe.
The Victor Gollancz Ltd. publishers file for the publication The Wise Wound is held in University College Cork Library as the Shuttle-Redgrove Collection.
This collection was acquired in May 2019 and consists of correspondences, contemporary reviews of The Wise Wound and letters from various individuals praising the work, including the poets Ted Hughes and D.M.
[2] Shuttle is a founder member of the Falmouth Poetry Group, founded in 1972.