Zoë Brigley
Welsh poet (born 1981) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Welsh poet (born 1981) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zoë Brigley or Zoë Brigley Thompson (born 1981) is a Welsh poet, editor of Poetry Wales, and assistant professor in the Department of English of Ohio State University.[1][2]
Zoë Brigley | |
---|---|
Born | 1981 (age 42–43) |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Welsh |
Alma mater | University of Warwick |
Period | 2007- |
Genre | Poetry, Non-Fiction |
Notable awards |
|
Website | |
www |
Brigley was born in 1981 and grew up in Caerphilly in the Rhymney Valley.[3] She has a BA (2002), MA (2004) and PhD (2007) from the University of Warwick.[2] Her doctoral thesis was titled: Exile and ecology : the poetic practice of Gwyneth Lewis, Pascale Petit and Deryn Rees-Jones.[4] She won a 2003 Eric Gregory Award, an award given by the Society of Authors for a collection by a poet aged under 30.[5]
She has had three volumes of poetry published by Bloodaxe Books: The Secret (2007),[6] Conquest (2012),[7] and Hand & Skull (2019).[8][9] All three were Poetry Book Society recommendations.[1] In 2019 she published Notes from a Swing State: Writings from Wales and America[10] and co-edited Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation.[11]
In 2021, Brigley edited a special issue of the magazine Magma Poetry with Rob A. Mackenzie and Kristian Evans.[12] In 2021 Brigley and Marvin Thompson were appointed as the first joint editors of the magazine Poetry Wales.[13] However, Thompson stepped down from the role three weeks later.[14] Since then, Brigley has introduced a scheme where a series of contributing editors join the magazine for a couple of issues.[15] She edited with Kristian Evans the anthology 100 Poems to Save the Earth for Seren Books, and in 2022 became a poetry editor for the press along with the Welsh poet Rhian Edwards.[16]
Brigley was married to mathematics professor Dan Thompson,[17] but they have divorced.[18]
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.