Angela Marston is a former NHS specialist practitioner with over 30 years' experience in nursing. She holds a masters degree in professional leadership and worked with universities and hospitals teaching nurses about palliative care as well as working as the clinical lead of Katharine House Hospice. She retired in 2018 and, during the global coronavirus epidemic, founded Poems For a Pandemic to raise money for NHS Charities Together. Angela is married  to Phil and has three children Sarah, , James and David . She is the proud nanny to Nathaniel and Tobias and finds retirement leaves her busier than ever.