Jane Draycott was born in London and studied at King’s College London and Bristol University.
Her first full collection, Prince Rupert’s Drop (1999), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. In 2002 she received the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry and in 2004, the year of her second collection The Night Tree, she was named as one of the Poetry Book Society’s ‘Next Generation’ poets. Her third collection, Over, was nominated for the 2009 T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2011 Carcanet published her translation of the fourteenth-century Pearl, winner of a Stephen Spender Prize for Translation.
