Pascale Petit was born in Paris and lives in London. Her latest collection, What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo (Seren, 2010, UK, Black Lawrence Press 2011, US), was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize and Wales Book of the Year, and was a Book of the Year in The Observer. She has worked as Poetry Editor of Poetry London and currently tutors courses at Tate Modern and for The Poetry School. A selection of poems from her next collection Fauverie won the Manchester Writing Prize for Poetry in 2013. A pamphlet Effigies was published in 2013, in collaboration with the Syrian Kurdish painter Lawand, and commissioned by the A.M. Qattan Foundation at The Mosaic Rooms. (photo credit: Kaido Vainomaa)

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