Julia Copus

Julia Copus is a poet, biographer and children’s writer. She has published five collections of poetry. Her most recent, Girlhood (Faber 2019), was winner of the inaugural Derek Walcott Prize for best collection by a non-US citizen. Other awards include the Forward Prize for ‘Best Single Poem’, First Prize in the National Poetry Competition and a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. Her biography of the poet Charlotte Mew, This Rare Spirit, was described by John Carey in The Sunday Times as ‘a triumph of precise scholarship and imaginative sympathy’ and was chosen by Andrew Motion as a book of the year in The Spectator. Julia teaches poetry for the Faber Academy and was 2023-24 Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.