Andrew McMillan lives in Manchester. His debut collection physical (Cape Poetry, 2016) was the only poetry collection ever to have won the Guardian First Book Award. It also won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, a Somerset Maugham Award, an Eric Gregory Award and a Northern Writers’ award. It was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Most recently physical has been translated into Norwegian and Galician, and came out in a bilingual French edition. His second collection, playtime (Cape Poetry, 2018), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Poetry Book of the Month in both the Observer and the Telegraph, a Poetry Book of the Year in the Sunday Times and won the inaugural Polari Prize. He is senior lecturer at the Manchester Writing School at MMU. Since judging the T. S. Eliot Prize 2020, he has published a third collection, pandemonium (Cape Poetry, 2021); a debut novel, Pity (Canongate, 2024); and with Mary Jean Chan co-edited the acclaimed 100 Queer Poems (Vintage, 2022). Author photo © Urszula Soltys
