Selima Hill (she/her) grew up in a family of painters on farms in England and Wales. She has lived in Dorset for the past 40 years. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1986 and was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow...

Robert McDowell is a proponent of narrative and formal resurgence in American poetry as well as poetry as spiritual practice. McDowell’s poems, narratives, and lyrics focus on 20th-century American life. His...

Adam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize. The recipient of the 2022 Poetry International Prize and the 2016 George Bogin Memorial...

Richard Rolle, also known as Richard Rolle of Hampole or de Hampole, was born in Yorkshire in 1300 to a poor farming family. He was an English hermit, a writer, and a mystic and was a part of the golden age...

The “Gawain Poet” is the name used for the unknown author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The entirety of the Gawain Poet's known work exists in a single manuscript written in Middle English that dates...

Kim Moore was born in Leicester, England. Her first chapbook, If We Could Speak Like Wolves, was a winner in the 2011 Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition, and went on to be shortlisted for the Michael...

Nancy Lee was born in Cardiff, Wales, to parents of Chinese and Indian descent and grew up in Peterborough, England, and Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the author of the poetry collection What Hurts Going...

Najlaa Osman Eltom is a Sudanese writer based in Sweden. She has been active in the Sudanese literary scene since 2000. She has two poetry collections in Arabic, published in Cairo, 2007, and in Istanbul, ...

American poet Dustan Thompson was born in Connecticut and educated at Harvard University. After briefly coediting the magazine Vice Versa with classmate and fellow dropout Harry Brown in New York City, Thompson...

English poet David Gascoyne grew up in England and Scotland, and he lived in Paris in the early 1930s. His poetry underwent several major changes during his long career. At first an Imagist, then a dedicated...

Because James Thomson’s long, reflective landscape poem The Seasons (1730) commanded so much attention and affection for at least 100 years after he wrote it, his achievement has been identified with it. Thomson...

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, influential novelist, poet, and historian, and biographer Sir Walter Scott studied law as an apprentice to his father before his writing career flourished. At age 25, he published...

Playwright, poet, and translator George Chapman was an important figure in the English Renaissance. His plays, particularly, were adapted for the stage throughout the Restoration, and, though his reputation...

Extraordinarily prolific and decidedly popular among the reading public, Alfred Noyes enjoyed a full-fledged career as a writer and as an intellectual when few people of the era could depend solely on the ...

Poet, playwright, and translator Sasha Dugdale was born in Sussex, England. She has worked as a consultant for theater companies in addition to writing her own plays. From 1995 to 2000, she worked for the ...

Elected to Parliament at age 16, Edmund Waller quickly gained a reputation as a masterful orator. He was also a celebrated lyric poet long before the publication of his Poems in 1645. Despite his eloquent ...

Like the other Cavalier poets of 17th-century England, Richard Lovelace lived a legendary life as a soldier, lover, and courtier. Persecuted for his unflagging support of King Charles I, he died in dire poverty...

English poet and feminist essayist Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710) was a devout Anglican who educated herself and, ahead of her time, challenged traditional gender roles. She was born in Winslade, Devon, and...