Richard Scott was born in Wimbledon in 1981 and grew up in London. He studied to be an opera singer at the Royal College of Music and later at Goldsmiths College. He has been a winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, a Jerwood/Arvon Poetry mentee, a member of the Aldeburgh 8 and an Open Spaces artist resident at Snape Maltings in Suffolk. His pamphlet Wound (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award in 2016 and his poem ‘crocodile’ won the 2017 Poetry London Competition. His first collection Soho (Faber & Faber, 2018) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. He has since published his second full collection, That Broke into Shining Crystal (Faber & Faber, 2025). He is a lecturer in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and he teaches poetry at the Faber Academy.
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