Sarah Corbett was born in Chester, raised in rural north Wales, and educated at the Universities of Leeds and East Anglia. Her debut collection The Red Wardrobe (Seren Books, 1998) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. It was followed by The Witch Bag (2002) and Other Beasts (2008), also Seren Books. Her most recent collections, published by Pavilion Poetry /Liverpool University Press, are: the verse novel And She Was (2015), A Perfect Mirror (2018) and The Ishtar Gate (forthcoming in 2025). In 2022 Sarah produced and directed the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, and co-edited After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath (Nine Arches Press, 2022). She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing for Lancaster University and lives in Hebden Bridge.
