Karen McCarthy Woolf is the author of two poetry collections and the editor of six literary anthologies. Born in London to English and Jamaican parents, Woolf is a widely published writer whose poetry has been translated into Turkish, Swedish, Italian, Dutch and Spanish. Her debut poetry collection, An Aviary of Small Birds (2014), tells the story of losing a son in childbirth and was an Observer Book of the Year. Her latest, Seasonal Disturbances (2017), explores gentrification, the city and the sacred, and was a winner in the inaugural Laurel Prize for ecological poetry. Her poetry continues to explore the relationship between poetry, law, the impacts of capitalism on black, brown and indigenous bodies, and the cultural and material legacies of sugar.