And They Are Covered in Gold Light

Amy Acre is a poet, performer and freelance writer from London. Her poem, 'every girl knows' won the 2019 Verve Poetry Prize. Her first pamphlet, Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads (flipped eye) was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and a Poetry School Book of 2015. Amy runs Bad Betty Press with Jake Wild Hall. She co-edited mental health anthology, The Dizziness of Freedom (Bad Betty, 2018) and the Anti-Hate Anthology (Spoken Word London, 2019). Her work has appeared in Poetry London, Poetry Review, Magma, 3:AM Magazine, POEM International: Women on Brexit and on BBC Radio London.