Elected: 2022
Rachael Boast was born in Bury St Edmunds in 1975 and has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews. She has published four collections of poetry, most recently, Hotel Raphael (Picador, 2021). She is co-editor of The Echoing Gallery: Bristol Poets and Art in the City (Redcliffe Press, 2013), and The Caught Habits of Language: An Entertainment for W.S. Graham for Him Having Reached One Hundred (Donut Press, 2018). She lives in Suffolk.
Image credit Rebecca MacPhail.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
