Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales, and lives in London. Her poetry collections include The Huntress (Seren, 2005)and The Zoo Father (Seren, 2001). Both were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and were books of the year in The Times Literary Supplement. The Zoo Father was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She has two books forthcoming – The Treekeeper’s Tale (Seren, November 2008) and The Thorn Necklace: Forty poems after Frida Kahlo (illustrated, Seren, November 2009).

The Poetry Book Society and Arts Council named her as one of the Next Generation Poets in 2004. She has won numerous writing awards, including two from Arts Council England to complete The Treekeeper’s Tale and travel to Nepal and China, and has been shortlisted for a Forward Prize. A bilingual edition of The Zoo Father is published in Mexico and her poems are translated into many languages. In 2008 she took part in the Yellow Mountain Poetry Festival in China and the British Council’s New Silk Route project in Almaty. She originally trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art, has worked as editor of Poetry London 1989–2005 and is now a trustee. She is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Middlesex University and tutors for Oxford University, The Poetry School and Tate Modern.

Website: www.pascalepetit.co.uk