About (in the third person for good measure)

Jay is a writer from London. She started performing her poetry aged fifteen, after she attended a series of workshops with Apples and Snakes. She then went on to win the Respect Slam in 2004 and the Foyle’s Young Poets competition in 2005. She has read her work on radio shows such as The Verb, The Green Room and the Today Show; she’s appeared at venues from Trafalgar Square and Shakespeare’s Globe, to the Vienna Lit festival in Austria and Bluestockings in New York.

Her poems (and thoughts on poetry) have been published in magazines such as Chroma, Poetry London, Magma and Dazed and Confused. Your Sign is Cuckoo, Girl is the title of her first pamphlet which was recently selected as the Poetry Book Society’s pamphlet choice for summer 2008.

As well as writing poetry, Jay has been commissioned by the Royal Opera House in London to write a libretto based on Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth. She is also a DJ for the Poetry Society and podcasts regularly. She has run workshops at City Hall, The Children’s Alliance and several schools and her first residency, courtesy of Apples and Snakes, begins later this year. Use the menu on the right to find her videos, portfolio and music.