Emily Berry

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

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.

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 (Faber & Faber, 2013), won the Hawthornden Prize, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She is a contributor to The Breakfast Bible (Bloomsbury, 2013). 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.

From 2017 until 2022, Berry was the editor of 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

 * —(2014), Hawthornden Prize for Dear Boy
 * —(2014), Forward Prize for Best First Collection for Dear Boy
 * —(2008), Eric Gregory Award