Miriam Gamble

Miriam Gamble was born in Brussels in 1980 and grew up in Belfast. She studied at Oxford and then at Queen’s University Belfast, where she completed a PhD on Form, Genre and Lyric Subjectivity in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry; she moved to Edinburgh in 2010 where she lectures at the University.

Gamble published her first pamphlet, This Man’s Town in 2007 and received an Eric Gregory Award the same year. She was awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary in 2010, while Bloodaxe published her first book, The Squirrels Are Dead, which won her a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. Her following collections, Pirate Music and What Planet, were also published by Bloodaxe in 2014 and 2019 respectively, and she won the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize for the latter.