Chrys started her career as an actor appearing extensively in repertory, London’s West End, TV and radio.

She has written plays for theatre and radio, numbers of books, five full poetry collections and four pamphlet collections, been translated into several languages and been set to music by various composers.

She has performed UK wide, in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Finland, India, Australia and Africa. She featured as The International Poet at The Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2019 with an adjacent tour up the Australian East Coast, was guest of honour at The Dialogia Festival in Finland August 2022 and one of seven International poets to feature at The Kistrech International Poetry Festival in Kenya in November of the same year.

She has been recipient of various awards and bursaries and in 2014 was awarded an MBE in the late Queen’s Birthday Honours List for Services to The Arts.