Alison Winch’s debut pamphlet, Trouble (The Emma Press, 2016), was one of The Poetry School’s Books of the Year. She has received a Hawthornden Fellowship and has been published in The Poetry Review, The Rialto, Long Poem Magazine, Magma, Poetry Wales and Oxford Poetry. She lives in Norwich, where she is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of East Anglia. She has published two books of criticism, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood (Palgrave, 2013) and the anthology Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature (Bloomsbury, 2013).