Zena has been involved in performance for 18 years - as a vocalist, poet and stage-manager after graduating from Middlesex University. She has been a performance poet since 1998, performing, professionally and facilitating workshops in poetry and creative writing since 2002. She recently studied at The London International School for Performing Arts.

Raised in Tottenham, North London, Zena has become known as one the most unique voices of  performance poet to come out of London and was nominated for the Arts Foundation Award for performance Poetry 2007 and on The HICreEc Award 2012. She has toured extensively round the UK and Europe supported by the Apples and Snakes poetry organisation, 57 Productions and the British Council.
She has been making poetic performance for theatre since 2005 and  is Creator and Director of  ©ViD - Conversations: Verse in Dialog, which is a company dedicated to new and boundary breaking work that charts and document the processes of poetry in performance or the "making of contemporary literature Live." Click for Zena Edwards full biog.