Nicola Slee is a poet and theologian based at the Queen\'s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham. She teaches in the fields of spirituality and feminist theology, and has a particular interest in women\'s contemporary poetry that addresses issues of faith and spirituality. As well as writing poetry herself, she regularly runs workshops on women\'s poetry and on creative writing. Her most recent publications include Praying like a Woman (SPCK, 2005), Women\'s Faith Development: Patterns and Processes (Ashgate, 2004) and Faith and Feminism: An Introduction to Christian Feminist Theology (DLT, 2004). She has also written a series of adult Bible study materials, the most recent of which is Seeing Jesus: Exploring the Bible through contemporary art (Christian Education, 2005). She is currently working on a second collection of poems and liturgical pieces focused around Mary, and is co-editing a book with Rosie Miles for Wild Goose publications entitled Doing December Differently: An Alternative Christmas Handbook, to be published this year.