KATE ELSPETH SIMPSON

Kate is an editor, poet, writer, and critic. She is the former Associate Editor of the arts and culture magazine Aesthetica (2016-2022), and has independently edited for renowned poetry publishers including Faber, Ambit and Magma, amongst others. Her anthology, Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency (2021), was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation – lauded as the ‘definitive anthology for this decisive decade’. It was listed as one of the Guardian/Observer’s Books of the Year. She has worked with numerous large-scale institutions, publishers, galleries, festivals and organisations, with selected collaborators including Apple, Audible, Bloomsbury, British Journal of Photography, Guardian, Granta, Guggenheim, MIT Press, London Review of Books, Penguin Random House, Sony, V&A, and Royal Academy. She is currently part of the Poetry Centre at the University of Leeds as a Leverhulme-funded researcher exploring poetry and the reimagining of deep time, and writes regularly on literature and the environment for the Times Literary Supplement, the Telegraph, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Poetry School, PN Review, and The London Magazine, amongst others. She is working on a debut collection of poetry.