Patricia Doubell was born in Dorset. She trained as a dancer and danced proffesionally, before marrying and farming in Wales. Her poetry was first published in Adam, and subsequently in Tribune, Outposts, Pick, Breif, Workshop Magazine, Poets International, Doves for the 70s and The Evans Book of Children's Verse. She has also given many readings and broadcast her poems on Radio 3. Her autobiography At the Dog in Dulwich was published by Seeker and Warburg in 1986.