Mimi Josephson was born in Swansea in 1911 but spent much of her life in Cardiff and later in Cambridge. She had numerous occupations, being a schoolteacher, private teacher of gifted children and dyslexics, freelance journalist specialising in interviews (including ones of Dylan Thomas and Fred Hoyle), short story writer, and poet.

"I have known the golden scorch of the sun's fierce embrace. I have felt the silver thrust of the moon's pale kiss. The star-gemmed cloak of a darker night has clad me in its folds. But still I yearn for more than this." (the first verse of 'More than This')