Stephen Sexton

Stephen Sexton (born 1988) is a Northern Irish Poet who lives in Belfast. In 2017 Sexton won the National Poetry Competition with his poem 'The Curfew'. Sexton received an Eric Gregory Award in 2018. In 2019 his poetry collection with Penguin Books If All the World and Love Were Young was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

Sexton is a lecturer in Creative Writing and Poetry at Queen's University Belfast.