Sandeep Parmar

Poet and scholar Sandeep Parmar was born in Nottingham, England, and raised in Southern California. She earned an MA from the University of East Anglia and a PhD from University College London. Parmar is the author of the poetry collections The Marble Orchard (2012) and Eidolon (2017), which won a Ledbury Forte Prize for Best Second Collection. With James Byrne, she collaborated on the chapbook Myth of the Savage Tribes, Myth of Civilised Nations (2014).

Parmar’s scholarship focuses on British and American Modernism, particularly women’s autobiographical writing by lesser-known writers such as Hope Mirrlees, Nancy Cunard, and Mina Loy. She is the author of the critical book Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern Woman (2013) and edited two volumes of Modernist poetry: Hope Mirrlees: Collected Poems (2011) and Selected Poems: Nancy Cunard (2016). She is also reviews editor for the Wolf.

Parmar is a BBC New Generation Thinker and codirector of Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing. She is currently a professor of English literature at the University of Liverpool.