James O'Hara-Knight is a writer from East London. His poetry and fiction have been shortlisted and longlisted in many prizes, including the 2019 Live Canon International Poetry Competition and the 2018 Winchester Poetry Prize, in both of which he was highly commended. His writing has been widely anthologised and appears in literary journals such as The London Magazine, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, The Keats-Shelley Review, Acumen, and Lighthouse Literary Journal. He is pursuing a PhD on British and Irish place poetry after Wordsworth, funded by a Queen Mary University of London Principal's Research Studentship.
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