Jemma Borg

Jemma Borg won the inaugural Ginkgo Prize in 2018 and The Rialto/RSPB Nature and Place Competition in 2017. Her poems have appeared in the TLS, The Poetry Review and Oxford Poetry, and in the anthologies Out of Time (Valley Press, 2021) and Places of Poetry (Oneworld, 2020). Her first collection, The Illuminated World (Eyewear, 2014), won The Stare’s Nest Fledgling Award and the New Writing Ventures Award for Poetry. Her second collection, Wilder (Pavilion / Liverpool University Press, 2022), was among the winners of the 2022 Laurel Prize, awarded by the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and through the Poetry School. Jemma was a zoologist and evolutionary geneticist before working in scientific research management in the voluntary sector and in science publishing. She lives in East Sussex with her family. Photo © Charlotte Knee

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