Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi FRSL is a dynamic poet, novelist, workshop facilitator and Fellow in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University. She has performed all over the world and taught Creative Writing for 30 years, from primary to PhD. Her poem ‘Eat Me’ is studied on the Edexcel A-Level curriculum. Agbabi has created four poetry collections, including 'Telling Tales' (Canongate, 2014), her retelling of 'The Canterbury Tales', shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, plus the Wales Book of the Year 2015. She has toured this work extensively at US universities, including Harvard and Yale.