Jenny Lewis is a poet, playwright, translator and songwriter who teaches poetry at Oxford University. She was educated at the Royal Masonic School (Weybridge and Rickmansworth) and then at the Ruskin School of Art and, later, St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She gained an MPhil in Poetry from the University of South Wales and a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths. Jenny has had seven plays and poetry cycles performed with music and dance at major UK theatres including the Royal Festival Hall and Pegasus Theatre, Oxford where she was a Core Writing Tutor for 20 years. She has published four collections including Taking Mesopotamia (Carcanet, 2014) and Gilgamesh Retold (Carcanet, 2018), which was a New Statesman Book of the Year, a LRB Bookshop Book of the Week and Carcanet's first ever audiobook.
