Emily Berry
{{Short description|English poet and writer (born 1981)}}
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Goldsmiths College
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| notableworks = Dear Boy (2013)
Stranger Baby (2017)
Unexhausted Time (2022)
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Emily Berry {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSL}} (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. As of 2017, she was completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Career
She was one of five to be awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 2008.{{cite web|title=Eric Gregory Past Authors|url=http://www.societyofauthors.org/eric-gregory-past-winners|website=Society of Authors|access-date=18 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327205725/http://societyofauthors.org/eric-gregory-past-winners|archive-date=27 March 2014|url-status=dead}} Her pamphlet Stingray Fevers was published by tall-lighthouse in 2008.{{cite web |title=Emily Berry (poet) |url=http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/27677/Emily-Berry |website=Poetry International Web |access-date=18 March 2016 |archive-date=16 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916022837/https://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/27677/Emily-Berry |url-status=usurped }} 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. Her third collection, Unexhausted Time, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022.{{Cite web |last=Faber & Faber |title=Unexhausted Time - Emily Berry |url=https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571373840-unexhausted-time/ }}
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.{{cite web|last1=Baker|first1=Sophie|title=Emily Berry is the new Editor of The Poetry Review|url=http://poetrysociety.org.uk/news/emily-berry-is-the-new-editor-of-the-poetry-review/|website=The Poetry Society|access-date=8 February 2017}}
In June 2018 Berry was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
Awards
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| Year | Book | Award | Category | Result
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| 2008
| — || Eric Gregory Award || — || {{won}} || | ||||
| rowspan="2" | 2014
| rowspan="3" | Dear Boy || Forward Prize || First Collection || {{won}} || | ||||
| Hawthornden Prize | — | {{won}} | ||
| 2015
|Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize |— |{{Sho}} | |
Biblio
- {{cite book |last=Berry |first=Emily |title=Dear Boy |publisher=Faber & Faber |year=2013 |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |last=Berry |first=Emily |title=Stranger, Baby |publisher=Faber & Faber |year=2017 |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |last=Berry |first=Emily |title=Unexhausted Time |publisher=Faber & Faber |year=2022 |author-mask=2}}
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Category:21st-century English poets
Category:21st-century English women writers
Category:Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Category:Alumni of the University of Leeds