Maggie O'Sullivan was born in Lincolnshire to Irish parents. Poet, artist, editor, publisher, she has performed her work and published internationally since the late 1970s. In 1996 she edited the groundbreaking anthology of innovative writing by women, Out of Everywhere. Her work has been anthologised widely, and The Salt Companion to Maggie O'Sullivan was published in 2011. She lives in the Pennines outside Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Waterfalls is a companion to red shifts, both works comprising the poetic project her/story:eye (1994-99). First published in a limited edition by etruscan books, it is Maggie O'Sullivan's third Reality Street collection.