Pascale Petit

Pascale Petit was born in Paris, France, and lives in Cornwall, England. She is of French, Welsh, and Indian heritage. Her eighth collection, Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe Books, 2020), was shortlisted for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection and for the 2021 Wales Book of the Year. A poem from the book won the 2020 Keats-Shelley Prize. Her seventh collection, Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe Books, 2017), won the inaugural (2020) Laurel Prize for eco-poetry, the 2018 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, was shortlisted for the 2018 Roehampton Prize, and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Four previous collections were shortlisted for a T.S. Eliot Prize. My Hummingbird Father (Salt, 2024) is her debut novel. 

Petit is widely translated and traveled, particularly in the Amazon rainforest and India. Trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art, she spent the first part of her life as a visual artist and was a co-founding tutor of the Poetry School. In 2018 she was elected as a Royal Society of Literature Fellow.