"Science fiction and poetry might have a sort of underlying kinship, related perhaps to their ability to conjure alternative worlds."

Sarah Howe is a poet, editor and the Leverhulme Fellow in English at King's College London. Her first book, Loop of Jade won the T.S. Eliot Prize, the first debut poetry collection to do so.

Previously, Sarah Howe has judged the National Poetry Competition, and been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her work has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and she was also elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 under 40" initiative.

"Sarah Howe’s poems are alive to the complex stories and voices that cohere around objects, family and place." — Edumnd de Waal