Hylda writes novels, poetry and songs. She has been a folksinger, teacher, communard, landlady and single parent. She currently co-runs Fourth Friday - acoustic music and poetry at the Poetry Cafe and was a founder member of the City Ramblers Skiffle Group and The Skiffle Cellar, Soho (1957 – 59)

Hylda has degrees in Russian Studies, is the love child of itinerant communist market traders and was educated at A S Neill’s ‘free’ school, Summerhill. She has two daughters and four grandchildren. She lives in South London

Publications include:
A novel – Inspecting the Island (Seven-ply Yarns 2000)
Sayling the Babel, poems & songs (Hearing Eye 2006)
A narrative sequence of poems, Reaching Peckham (1996) has been republished by Hearing Eye (+ CD)