Rachael Allen - Rachael Allen

Funded
by Arts Council England, Faber New Poets aims to identify and support
emerging talents at an early stage in their careers. Through a programme
of mentorship, bursary and pamphlet publication, the scheme offers four
poets a year the time, guidance and encouragement they require to help
in the development of their work in the longer term.

Rachael
Allen was born in 1989 in Cornwall and studied English Literature at
Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the online and poetry
editor for Granta, co-editor of poetry anthology series Clinic and
online journal Tender. Her poetry has appeared in The Best British
Poetry 2013 (Salt), Poetry London, the Sunday Times, the White Review online, Stop Sharpening Your Knives 5, Dear World and Everyone In it (Bloodaxe), Night & Day (Chatto & Windus) and Five Dials. Her reviews and other writing have appeared in Ambit magazine, Dazed and Confused and Music & Literature.