About Jessica Mookherjee -

Jessica Mookherjee is a British poet of Bengali heritage. She is author of four full collections and three poetry pamphlets. She was twice highly commended for best single poem in the Forward Prize 2017 and 2021. Her second collection Tigress (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the Ledbury Munte Prize in 2021. Her collection was Notes from a Shipwreck (Nine Arches Press 2022). In 2023 she also published a long London prose poem Desire Lines – with Broken Sleep Books. She is a board member of the Poetry Society and one of the editors of Against the Grain Poetry Press. She lives now in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. She has worked in Public Health for over 20 years and has a background in psychology and biological anthropology and socio-ecology. She’ll be reading from her new book The Universe Is An Animal.

Jessica will be supported at her launch by Mara…