Sarah Howe is a Chinese–British poet, academic, and editor. She won the T. S. Eliot Prize for her poetry Loop of the Jade.
Life and Career
Sarah Howe was born in 1983 in Hong Kong and moved to England as a child. She studied English literature at Cambridge and Harvard and has a PhD in Renaissance literature and art. She is currently a lecturer in poetry at King’s College London.
Her first full poetry collection, Loop of Jade, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Sunday Times / Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of The Year Award in 2015. It explores her British and Chinese heritage and is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s fictional encyclopedia.
She also founded and co-edits Prac Crit, an online journal of poetry and criticism.
She has also collaborated with composers, sound artists, and filmmakers, and has appeared on BBC radio and television.
Award and Legacy
She won the T. S. Eliot Prize for her poetry Loop of the Jade.
She has received many other honors and awards, such as the Eric Gregory Award, the Hawthorden Fellowship, the Harper-Wood Studentship for English Poetry, and the Frieda L. Miller Fellowship at Harvard.
She has also collaborated with composers, sound artists, and filmmakers, and has appeared on BBC radio and television.
Her legacy is that of a groundbreaking poet who has changed British poetry with her creative use of form, language, and cultural identity. She is also a respected scholar and editor who has contributed to the fields of Renaissance and contemporary literature.
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