Courtney Conrad, Poet

Courtney Conrad is a Jamaican poet. Her debut pamphlet I Am Evidence is published by Bloodaxe Books. She is a winner of the Eric Gregory Award, Michael Marks Award, Bridport Prize Young Writers Award and Mslexia Women’s Pamphlet Prize. Shortlisted for The White Review Poet's Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize, the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition, the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award’s Poetry Prize, the Bridport Poetry Prize, Derby Poetry Festival Poetry Prize and the Poetry Wales Pamphlet competition.  She is currently a Cave Canem fellow and an alumna of The London Library Emerging Writers Programme, Barbican Young Poets and Roundhouse Poetry Collective. She has been commissioned by the Museum of London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Fuel Theatre, Apples and Snakes, Victoria & Albert Museum, Guildhall, Tate Britain, BBC 1Xtra, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The Sidings, John's Hopkins University, The University of Warwick, Weclome Trust and Spread the Word.