Zoë Brigley (Thompson)

"a powerful poetic imagination"

---Keith Richmond in Tribune Magazine

Zoe Brigley Thompson has three poetry collections The Secret (2007), Conquest (2012), and Hand & Skull (2019), all of which were Poetry Book Society Recommendations and all published by Bloodaxe. She also has two poetry chapbooks: Aubade After A French Movie (Broken Sleep, 2020), and Into Eros (Verve, 2021).

She has published a book of nonfiction essays: Notes from a Swing State (Parthian 2021) and has a chapbook of writing about nature and magic out: Otherworld (Broken Sleep 2021) co-written with Kristian Evans. She also edited the volume Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives (2010).

She is currently writing a collection of modern fairy tales. You can read one of them 'The Woman Who Loved A Bear' on the online magazine Waxwing.

For her creative writing, she has won an Eric Gregory Award for the best British poets under 30, the English Association's Poetry Fellows' Award, and a Welsh Academy Bursary. She was long listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize for the best international writers under 40, and she was a finalist for the Autumn House Books Poetry Prize.

In her academic research, she approaches representations of sexuality and violence in literature, film, and culture. She received a fellowship from the Humanities Research Center, and she is a member of two international, collaborative research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry, "Globalized Cultural Markets" and "Bodies in Transit."

She is originally from Wales and was featured by the Devolved Voices project at the University of Aberystwyth as one of the the key Welsh poets in the post-devolutionary flowering. She was featured by the Manhattan Review and the Best American Poetry Blog as one of the best young British poets writing now.