Sheila Hill (writer)

[1] She was a columnist and feature writer for the Guardian newspaper, before focusing on theatre, and art installations.

A spinal injury, in her early 30s, removed her from normal life, but Atkinson Morley Hospital's intensive rehabilitation programme started to turn things around, despite the fact that regaining a functional level of strength took several years.

[2][3][4] As an artist, she draws on real voices, transcribing and editing these into short, poetic testimonies, which she uses as her starting material.

Sheila also founded and curated Tabernacle Folk, a four-year, progressive, commissioning, international music festival (2010-2013).

[5][6] In 2019, she was co-commissioned by Brighton Festival and Glyndebourne to create an autobiographical work about motherhood, performed by 100 women, grandmothers and children, which she spoke about in features on BBC Radio 3 (In Tune) and BBC Radio 4 (Woman's Hour).