Sarah Howe is a Chinese-British poet, editor and academic. Born in Hong Kong to an English father and Chinese mother, she moved to England as a child and studied at Cambridge University. Her pamphlet, A Certain Chinese Encyclopaedia (Tall-lighthouse, 2009), won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, and her first book, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, 2015), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award. Her work is aesthetically striking and explores hybridity through a variety of subjects and forms. She is the founding editor of Prac Crit, an online journal of poetry and criticism, and a Lecturer in Poetry at King’s College London. Writing in the American journal Transom she says, ‘When poetry succeeds in evoking that kind of bodily sensation in a reader – the crackle as you turn a page of vellum – that’s when you start to appreciate how writing might be a vessel for life and voice’.