Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales and lives in Cornwall. She is of French/Welsh/Indian heritage. Her eighth collection, Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe Books, 2020), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, won an RSL Literature Matters award while in progress, and a poem from the book won the Keats-Shelley Prize. Her seventh collection, Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe Books, 2017), won the inaugural Laurel Prize, and the RSL’s Ondaatje Prize. Four previous collections were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Petit is widely translated and travelled, 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. She was elected an RSL Fellow in 2018.
