Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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Kiran Millwood Hargrave is a poet, playwright and novelist. She was born in London on 29 March 1990, and started writing for publication in 2009. In 2014, her debut novel The Cartographer's Daughter was bought as part of a six-figure, two-book deal by Knopf Random House (US), and Chicken House Scholastic (rest-of-world). It will be published in both territories in 2016.
Hargrave's poetry has appeared internationally in journals such as Magma, Room, Agenda, Shearsman, The Irish Literary Review and Orbis. In 2013, Neil Astley judged her poem 'Grace' winner of the Yeovil Literary Prize. This poem appears in her third collection, Splitfish (Gatehouse Press, 2013). Her first piece as a playwright, about a fourteen-year old being trafficked for sex, was entitled "BOAT", and first dramatized in October 2015 by PIGDOG theatre company at Theatre N16 in Balham.
Hargrave graduated from Cambridge University in 2011, Oxford University in 2014, and currently lives in Oxford with her partner, artist Tom de Freston.
