Overview
Sandeep Parmar is a poet and critic born in England and raised in Southern California. From 2012-2025 she was Professor at the University of Liverpool where she co-directed the Centre for New and International Writing. She holds a PhD from University College London and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her research interests are primarily modernist women’s writing and contemporary poetry and race. Her books include Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern, a scholarly edition of the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees (Carcanet, 2011), and three books of her own poetry published by Shearsman: The Marble Orchard, Eidolon, winner of the Ledbury Forte Prize for Best Second Collection, and Faust, which was selected as the Poetry Book Society Choice for Summer 2022. She also edited the Selected Poems of Nancy Cunard (Carcanet, 2016). Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Statesman, the Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement. She was a 2015 BBC New Generation Thinker and co-founder of the Ledbury Poetry Critics scheme for poetry critics of color. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of the Arts.
Research Focus
- Contemporary Poetry
- Modernist Women's Writing
- Creative Writing