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McNish, Hollie

Hollie McNish

Elected: 2025

Hollie McNish is a bestselling poet and author based between Cambridge and Glasgow. She won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic memoir – Nobody Told Me. She has published four further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum and Virgin, as well as her Sunday Times bestselling hybrid prose-poetry collections Slug and Lobster. She adapted Sophocles’ play Antigone for those, like herself, with no Classics background. She really loves writing and tours her poetry in English, French and Spanish.

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