Imogen Wade

Imogen Wade is a poet and writer. She studied English Literature at the University of Exeter before training as a person-centred therapist, and now lives in the South East of England with her husband.
She won the National Poetry Competition in 2023 for her poem 'The Time I Was Mugged in New York City'. She won the Troubadour International Poetry Prize in 2024, and has received commendations in the New Poets Prize, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, the Montreal International Poetry Prize, The Moth Poetry Prize, the Plough Poetry Prize and the Winchester Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Poetry Review, PN Review, Basket Magazine, Perverse Magazine and The London Magazine, amongst others. She has been featured on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and BBC Radio Essex.
She contributed to Bi+ Lines: An Anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poets, published by Fourteen Poems, and to About Time, a series of temporary poem-tattoos published by Poem Atlas. Her first collection Girl, Swooning will be published by Corsair.