Emily Berry

Emily Berry (born 1981) is an English poet and writer.

Early life Berry was born and raised in London and studied English literature at Leeds University, and Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. She has a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia.

Career She was one of five to be awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 2008. Her pamphlet Stingray Fevers was published by tall-lighthouse in 2008. Her debut collection of poems, Dear Boy (2013), won the Hawthornden Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her second collection, entitled Stranger, Baby, was published by Faber & Faber in 2017.

She is a contributor to collections and anthologies such as The Breakfast Bible (Bloomsbury, 2013).

From 2017 until 2022, Berry was the editor of The Poetry Review, the UK's most widely read poetry magazine. Berry succeeded Maurice Riondan in the role.

In June 2018 Berry was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative.

Awards Year Book Award Category ResultRef 2008 — Eric Gregory Award — 2014 Dear Boy Forward Prize First Collection Hawthornden Prize — 2015Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize— Biblio