Stephanie Sy-Quia

Stephanie Sy-Quia’s first book of poetry, Amnion, won the 2021 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. It was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Laurel Prize and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize. Her debut novel, A Private Man, was nominated for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the Orwell Prize for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Boston Review, The White Review, Five Dials and Granta, among others. She lives in London.