Hannah Lowe was born in Ilford to an English mother and Jamaican-Chinese father. Her first poetry collection Chick (Bloodaxe, 2013) won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry, and was selected for the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets 2014. Her second collection was Chan (Bloodaxe, 2016). She has also published four chapbooks: The Hitcher (Rialto, 2012); R x (sine wave peak, 2013); Ormonde (Hercules Editions, 2014) and The Neighbourhood (Outspoken Press, 2019). Her third collection, The Kids (Bloodaxe, 2021), was a Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize and won the 2021 Costa Poetry Award 2021 and the Costa Book of the Year. She did her PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and now lectures in Creative Writing at Brunel University. Her latest chapbooks, Rock, Bird, Butterfly and Old Friends, are published by Hercules Editions. Author photo © Lealle Brady
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