Paul Muldoon (Chair)
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty-five years. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently Howdie-Skelp, published by FSG and Faber & Faber in 2021. He won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1994, its second year, for his collection The Annals of Chile, and was also shortlisted for Hay (1998), Moy Sand and Gravel (2002) and Horse Latitudes (2006); he was previously Chair of the T. S. Eliot Prize judges in 2000. His other awards include: the 1972 Eric Gregory Award, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize, the 2017 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry, and the 2020 Michael Marks Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. paulmuldoonpoetry.com @muldoonpoetry
Sasha Dugdale
Sasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. She has published five collections with Carcanet. Deformations, her most recent collection, was shortlisted for the 2020 T. S. Eliot and Derek Walcott Prizes. Her previous collection, Joy (2017), was a Poetry Book Society Choice and the title poem was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem of 2016. Her translations for theatre include Bad Roads by Ukrainian Natalya Vorozhbit, produced by the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2017, and The Grainstore by Natalya Vorozhbit (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2009). She has published numerous translations of Russian women’s writing. The most recent of these, Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory (Fitzcarraldo, 2021), was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Dugdale won the MLA Lois Roth Award for this translation. She is former editor of Modern Poetry in Translation and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Denise Saul
Denise Saul’s debut collection The Room Between Us (Pavilion / Liverpool University Press, 2022) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2022, longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023, and was a Poetry Book Society Summer Recommendation 2022. She is the author of two pamphlets: White Narcissi (flipped eye, 2007), a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice; and House of Blue (Rack Press, 2012), a PBS Pamphlet Recommendation. A recent guest editor of The Poetry Review, Denise is a past winner of The Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and is a Fellow of The Complete Works programme. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing (poetry) from the University of Roehampton. She received an ACE Grant for the Arts Award for her video poem collaborative project, Silent Room: A Journey of Language (see silent-room.net). Denise lives in Surrey. @DeniseSaul