December is here.

Moya Cannon (born 1965)

Moya was born in County Donegal and now lives in Dublin. She has taught in various schools and universities, been writer in residence at Trent University Ontario and Kerry County Council, and edited Poetry Ireland in 1995. Moya has collaborated with musicians including traditional Irish singers and a string quartet, and a bilingual Spanish/ English edition of her poems was published in Spain in 2015, translated by respected Argentinian poet Jorge Fondebrider.

Driving Back Over the Blue Ridge / Hunter’s Moon are here and here.

J. R. Carpenter (born 1972)

J. R. Carpenter is a Canadian-born UK-based artist, writer and practiceled researcher working across print, performance and digital media. Her web-based work The Gathering Cloud won the New Media Writing Prize 2016, and her debut novel Words the Dog Knows won the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book. Her poetry collection An Ocean of Static was highly commended by the Forward Prizes 2018. Extract from Notes on the Voyage of Owl and Girl is here.

Mary Jean Chan (born 1990)

Mary is the author of Flèche, a 2019 Poetry Book Society Recommendation and the winner of the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry. The title poem from her debut collection won the 2018 Poetry Society Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, and she is the recipient of a 2019 Eric Gregory Award for her pamphlet A Hurry of English. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Mary is Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University and lives in London.

The Window is here.

Jennifer Chang

Jennifer was born in New Jersey and studied for a PhD at the University of Virginia. Her poems have been published in publications including The New Yorker, Poetry and The Nation. She has published the collections The History of Anonymity (2008) and Some Say the Lark (2017), the latter winning the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award. Jennifer lives with her family in Washington D. C. and is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at George Washington University. She co-chairs the Advisory Board of Kundiman, an organization that supports and promotes Asian American literature. Obedience, or The Lying Tale is here.

Kate Clanchy (born 1965)

Kate was born and grew up in Scotland but now lives in Oxford. Her poetry collections Slattern, Samarkand and Newborn have brought her many literary awards and a wide audience. She is the author of Antigona and Me, and was the 2009 winner of the BBC Short Story Award. She has also written extensively for Radio 4. Her first novel, Meeting the English, was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa First Book Award. Kate’s anthology of poems from the students of Oxford Spires Academy, England: Poems from a School, was published in 2018, and her acclaimed memoir of her life in education, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, in 2019. In 2018, she was awarded an MBE for Services to Literature. Dare is here.

Polly Clark (born 1968)

Polly Clark has had various jobs, including zoo-keeping and teaching English in Hungary. Her poetry has won many prizes, including the Eric Gregory Award, and she was selected as one of Mslexia magazine’s ten best poets of the decade in 2014. Her novels Larchfield (2017) and Tiger (2019), which was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Novel of the Year 2019, have attracted widespread critical acclaim. Polly divides her time between Scotland and a London house boat. Hedgehog is here.