Abigail Parry spent several years as a toymaker before completing a PhD on wordplay. Her poems have been set to music, translated into Spanish, Serbian and Japanese, and performed or exhibited in Europe, the Caribbean and the US. Her first collection, Jinx (Bloodaxe Books, 2018) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Seamus Heaney Prize for Best First Collection, and named a Book of the Year in The New Statesman (Marina Warner), The Telegraph (Tristram Fane Saunders) and the Morning Star (Kate Wakeling). Her second collection, I Think We’re Alone Now, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2023, was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 and for the English-language Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year 2024).