Cecilia Knapp

Cecilia Knapp is a poet, novelist and playwright. She is the Young People’s Laureate for London, 2020-2021. Poems have appeared in Magma, The White Review, Ambit and Bath Magg. She curated the forthcoming poetry anthology Everything is going to be Alright which will be published by Trapeze in June 2021. Her work has been anthologised, most recently in The Dizziness of Freedom (Bad Betty Press). She was shortlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize and the Outspoken poetry prize. Her debut novel is forthcoming with The Borough Press. Commissions include Vogue, The Guardian, The BBC and The Tate. She was featured in British Vogue as one of the UK’s young writers to watch. She writes regularly for Mslexia magazine and the Independent. Her plays Losing the Night and Finding Home opened to sell out London runs and completed national tours.She teaches creative writing in a number of settings, including as one of the lead tutors for The Roundhouse Poetry Collective. She was resident poet at Great Ormond Street Hospital for two years and is an ambassador for the mental health charity CALM.

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