| Biography | Andrew McMillan was born in 1988. He is now lecturer/senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. He studied English Literature w/ Creative Writing at Lancaster University, and then an MA in modernism from University College London. As well as poetry, he has written journalism for The Guardian and The Indepdendent and appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4 (Free Thinking, The Echo Chamber, Front Row, Something Understood)
His first full-length collection, physical, was published by Jonathan Cape in July 2015 and is the first ever poetry collection to win The Guardian First Book Award. The collection also won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Roehampton Poetry Prize. This follows three highly successful pamphlets, the first of which, every salt advance, was published in 2009 by Red Squirrel Press. A second pamphlet, the moon is a supporting player, was published by Red Squirrel Press in October 2011 and a third, protest of the physical, a single long poem, was published by Red Squirrel Press in October 2013. A selection of his poetry can be found in anthologies such as The Salt Book of Younger Poets, Best British Poetry 2013 and Best British Poetry 2015. Recent single poems can be found in the London Review of Books, The Financial Times, The Guardian and Modern Poetry in Translation. |