Hannah Copley

Hannah Copley is a British writer and academic who works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Westminster. She is the author of two collections: Speculum (Broken Sleep Books, 2021) and Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry, 2024). A Poetry Book Society Summer 2024 Recommendation, Lapwing was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 and longlisted for the 2024 Laurel Prize. Her work has appeared in POETRY, The London Magazine, Anthropocene, Blackbox Manifold, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Stand, Under the Radar, bath magg, the Anne-thology and other publications. She runs poetry events at the Soho Poly in London and is an editor at Stand, where she first started as a student volunteer. Photo © Nick Dennis