Mimi Khalvati has published six collections of poetry with Carcanet Press and her most recent book, 'The Meanest Flower', was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a Financial Times Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Her work has been translated into nine languages and she received a Cholmondeley Award in 2006. Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School and was the Coordinator from 1997-2004. She is a core tutor for the School and has co-edited its three anthologies of new writing published by Enitharmon Press. She is also a freelance poetry tutor and has worked with arts organisations such as the Arvon Foundation and the South Bank Centre and has taught at universities in the UK, Europe and America.

About the Author

Mimi Khalvati has published six collections of poetry with Carcanet Press and her most recent book, 'The Meanest Flower', was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a Financial Times Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Her work has been translated into nine languages and she received a Cholmondeley Award in 2006. Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School and was the Coordinator from 1997-2004. She is a core tutor for the School and has co-edited its three anthologies of new writing published by Enitharmon Press. She is also a freelance poetry tutor and has worked with arts organisations such as the Arvon Foundation and the South Bank Centre and has taught at universities in the UK, Europe and America.