Lynn Thornton lives in Oxford and teaches creative writing and drama. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her pamphlet The Trying House was published in 2022, she subsequently dramatised the poems for performance at The Questors Theatre, Ealing. She is currently working on a collection of ekphrastic poems. She is also working on a play about Shakespeare’s stay, as a lodger, with the Mountjoy family in London, to be called, A Welcome Guest.

Lynn Thornton's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises two contributions of poetry, over a period of 10 years.