Denise Saul’s debut collection The Room Between Us (Pavilion / Liverpool University Press, 2022) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2022, longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023, and was a Poetry Book Society Summer Recommendation 2022. She is the author of two pamphlets: White Narcissi (flipped eye, 2007), a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice; and House of Blue (Rack Press, 2012), a PBS Pamphlet Recommendation. A recent guest editor of The Poetry Review, Denise is a past winner of The Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and is a Fellow of The Complete Works programme. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing (poetry) from the University of Roehampton. She received an ACE Grant for the Arts Award for her video poem collaborative project, Silent Room: A Journey of Language (see silent-room.net). Denise lives in Surrey. Photo © Karolina Heller