Gerrie Fellows was born in New Zealand in 1954 of Scottish descent, her family returning to England in 1963. She has lived in Glasgow for nearly twenty years and works as a creative writing tutor.

Her first collection, Technologies and other poems, was published by Polygon in 1990, and ten years later they also published The Powerlines, a collection that traces Scottish and New Zealand connections through a variety of women's voices. The Duntroon Toponymy was published by Mariscat in 2001, and Window for a Small Blue Child by Carcanet in 2007.