Girton College is delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 Jane Martin Poetry Prize:
Felicity Sheehy grew up in the Hudson Valley of New York and has since lived in Connecticut, Corsica, and Cambridge. Her poems are featured in The New Republic, The Yale Review, Kenyon Review, The Adroit Journal, Shenandoah, Southern Indiana Review, Southern Humanities Review, Narrative, and elsewhere. She has received awards and scholarships from the Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop, the Academy of American Poets, Narrative’s 30 Below Contest, the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, Brooklyn Poets, and the Connecticut Poetry Society. She has a B.A. from Yale University and an MPhil from Cambridge University, where she studied on a Paul Mellon Fellowship.
Oliver Newman studied at the universities of Warwick and Oxford. He lives and works in Bristol.
Previous winners:
2018 First Prize: Nina Powles; Second Prize: Dominic Leonard
2017 First Prize: Katie Hale; Second Prize: Andrew Wynn Owen
2016 First Prize: Isabel Galleymore; Second Prize: Nell Wilson
2015 First Prize: Theophilus Kwek; Second Prize: Charlotte Buckley
2014 First Prize: Alexandra Strnad; Second Prize: Penny Boxall
2013 Jen Campbell
2012 Jane Yeh
2011 Agnes Lehoczky and Emily Critchley
For any queries relating to the prize please email poetryprize@girton.cam.ac.uk
