Mimi Khalvati (Chair)
Mimi Khalvati, awarded the King’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2023, has published nine collections with Carcanet Press, including: The Meanest Flower, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2007; Child: New and Selected Poems 1991–2011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation; and The Weather Wheel, a PBS Recommendation and a Book of the Year in the Independent. Her most recent collection, Afterwardness, was a 2019 Poetry Book Society Winter Wild Card choice and a Sunday Times Book of the Year; her Collected Poems will be published by Carcanet in November 2024. She is the founder of the Poetry School and has taught creative writing at universities and colleges in the USA and Britain. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of The English Society; other awards include a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors and a major Arts Council Writer’s Award. Mimi was born in Tehran, Iran, and has lived most of her life in London. (Photo © Justin Owen)
Anthony Joseph
Anthony Joseph is an acclaimed poet, novelist, academic and musician. He is the author of five poetry collections: Desafinado; Teragaton; Bird Head Son; Rubber Orchestras; and Sonnets for Albert, published by Bloomsbury Poetry, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022 and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry. Precious & Impossible: Selected Poems will be published by Bloomsbury in September 2024. He is the author of three novels: The African Origins of UFOs; Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon, which was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and longlisted for the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; and The Frequency of Magic. As a musician he has released eight critically acclaimed albums. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at King’s College, London. Anthony was born in Trinidad and lives in London. (Photo © Naomi Woddis)
Hannah Sullivan
Hannah Sullivan’s debut collection Three Poems (Faber & Faber, 2018) won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, the Ted Hughes Award, the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize and Michael Murphy Poetry Prize. After a degree in Classics at Cambridge, she went to Harvard University on a Kennedy Scholarship and received a PhD in English and American Literature in 2008. From 2008 to 2011 she worked as an Assistant Professor in English at Stanford University in California. Her study of modernist writing, The Work of Revision, was published in 2013 and awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy and the 2015 University English Book Prize. Born in London, she now lives in Oxford and teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century English Literature at New College. Her second collection Was It for This was published by Faber & Faber and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2023. (Photo © Teresa Walton)