

Emily Berry grew up in London and studied English Literature at Leeds University and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College. Her debut poetry collection, ‘Dear Boy’, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Hawthornden Prize and was shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. She is a contributor to ‘The Breakfast Bible’ (Bloomsbury, 2013), a compendium of breakfasts, and is currently working towards a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia.