Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a British-born Ghanaian poet.

Early life and education
Bulley is of Ghanaian heritage, born and brought up in Essex, England. In 2019, she was awarded a Techne scholarship for doctoral work at Royal Holloway, University of London.

An alumna of The Complete Works poetry mentoring programme initiated by Bernardine Evaristo, Bulley has held residencies internationally in the US, Brazil, and at the V&A.

Writing
Bulley's writing has been published in works including Rising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry (Otter-Barry Books, 2017, ISBN 9781910959374), Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe Books, 2017, ISBN 9781780373829), Granta, The Guardian, and The White Review.

She produced the Mother Tongues intergenerational project, in which poets worked with their mothers to translate their poetry into their mother-tongues.

Bulley's 2017 debut pamphlet Girl B was published by Akashic Books and included in the collection New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (ISBN 9781617755408). Karen McCarthy Woolf called it "a probing, thoughtful, and quietly exhilarating debut".

Her first book collection, Quiet (2022), was praised in The Times Literary Supplement as "clever and capacious poems" and described in The Guardian as "mark[ing] the arrival of a major poetic talent".

Recognition
Bulley won a 2018 Eric Gregory Award.

Quiet was shortlisted for the 2022 T. S. Eliot Prize and won the 2023 Folio Prize for poetry. Bulley also won the 2023 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for Quiet.