Julia Copus has published four collections of poetry, the latest of which, Girlhood (Faber 2019), was winner of America’s inaugural Derek Walcott Prize for best collection by a non-US citizen. Other awards include the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, First Prize in the National Poetry Competition and an Eric Gregory Award. Her books have been shortlisted for the Costa Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize. She is an experienced teacher and has tutored on courses for The Arvon Foundation, The Poetry School and the British Council.

Julia has also written in various other genres, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently RLF Fellow at the V&A Museum in South Kensington. Her most recent book, This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew, was described by John Carey in The Sunday Times as ‘a triumph of precise scholarship and imaginative sympathy’ and was chosen by Sir Andrew Motion as a book of the year in The Spectator.