About
Born in London to English and Jamaican parents, Karen McCarthy Woolf is a poet, broadcaster, and editor whose collection, An Aviary of Small Birds, was described as a ’pitch perfect début’ (Guardian); her latest, Seasonal Disturbances, explores climate crisis, migration, the city, and the sacred, and was a winner in the inaugural Laurel Prize. As a Fulbright postdoctoral scholar at UCLA, she was poet in residence at the Promise Institute for Human Rights, where her interdisciplinary research explores the relationship between poetry, law, and ecologies of space. This year she has been awarded an artist residency at the Institute Sacatar in Brazil for a collaborative project on sugar with architect Ed Holloway and musician and cultural theorist Zacharia Mokrani.
