Becki Hawkes lives in London, England. Her poems appear in Ink Sweat & Tears, The Shore, Rust + Moth, Brittle Star, Pulp Poets Press, Crow & Cross Keys, Little Stone Journal, Lunate Fiction, Wrongdoing Magazine, Perhappened, Selcouth Station, and The Madrigal. In 2021, she won the James Tate Poetry Prize. This is her first poetry book.