Anna Selby

Anna Selby grew up in Shropshire, she worked abroad before moving to Norwich to study English Literature and do a Creative Writing Masters at the University of East Anglia. Her poems have been published in various publications and her poetry-dancecollaborations have been shortlisted for The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award, featured on the BBC Culture Show and tour nationally. Her poems often explore our connection with water and are influenced by poetry from Eastern Europe. In 2012, she organised Poetry Parnassus festival and co-edited The World Record anthology (Bloodaxe). She lives in London and works as Literature and Spoken Word Programmer at the Southbank Centre.