Hannah Lowe

1976–

Hannah Lowe is an English poet and teacher, born in Ilford, Essex, in 1976 to an English mother and a Jamaican-Chinese father who had sailed to Britain in 1947. She studied American literature at the University of Sussex, took a master's in refugee studies and a PhD in creative writing at Newcastle University. She taught for about ten years at a sixth-form college in inner-city London, later taught creative writing at Oxford Brookes and Kingston, and lectures at Brunel University. Her first collection, Chick (2013), was followed by Chan and by The Kids (2021), a book of sonnets that won the Costa Poetry Award and the overall Costa Book of the Year. She was elected FRSL in 2022.

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