IIML and English Literature graduate wins Women Poets’ Prize
Launched by the Rebecca Swift Foundation, the Prize is to be awarded to three female-identifying poets on a biennial basis and aims to ‘gift freedom’ and celebrate women's excellence in poetic practice. Rebecca Swift was a founder and director of The Literacy Consultancy from 1996 until her death in 2017.
Nina was awarded the Prize for work of “incredible originality that perfectly merges form and content". Now living in London, Nina is the author of Luminescent (2017) and Girls of the Drift (2014). She is Poetry Editor of the Shanghai Review and also won the 2018 Jane Martin Poetry Prize.
The Women Poets' Prize will allow Nina to access a year of poetry development in collaboration with Rebecca Swift Foundation partner organisations: Faber & Faber, The Poetry School, City Lit, Verve, RADA, Bath Spa University and The Literary Consultancy. Each of the winners is also paired with two mentors: one to support writing and craft, the other to advise and attend to the wider concerns of the poets’ writing lives.