Patience Agbabi is a UK-based poet and novelist who previously lectured in Creative
Writing at the Universities of Cardiff, Greenwich and Kent. She has been a Fellow in
Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University since 2009, was Associate Member of
the English Faculty at the University of Oxford from 2020 to 2024 and is an Honorary
Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Her work has been published in a variety of
anthologies and technologies, including a Poem on the Underground and tattooed
onto human skin. She is the author of four poetry collections, R.A.W., (Gecko Press,
1995), Transformatrix, Bloodshot Monochrome and Telling Tales, all with Canongate
Books Ltd. The latter, a 21 st century retelling of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, was
shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2015. The Leap Cycle,
her middle-grade time-travel tetralogy, appeared from 2020 to 2024. Its debut novel,
The Infinite was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2021 and won Wales
Book of the Year: Children & Young People’s Category the same year. Agbabi’s
novel-in-verse, Wonderland, is due with Firefly Press in 2026.
