Karen McCarthy Woolf

Born in London to English and Jamaican parents, Karen McCarthy Woolf is the author of two poetry collections and the editor of six literary anthologies. Her début An Aviary of Small Birds was shortlisted for the Forward Felix Dennis and Jerwood Prizes, and was an Observer Book of the Year. Her latest, Seasonal Disturbances , was a winner in the inaugural Laurel Prize for ecological poetry and excerpted in the Financial Times and Guardian .

Born in London to English and Jamaican parents, Karen McCarthy Woolf is the author of two poetry collections and the editor of six literary anthologies. Her début An Aviary of Small Birds was shortlisted for the Forward Felix Dennis and Jerwood Prizes, and was an Observer Book of the Year. Her latest, Seasonal Disturbances , was a winner in the inaugural Laurel Prize for ecological poetry and excerpted in the Financial Times and Guardian . See less