Chrissy Williams is an award-winning poet, editor and comic book writer based in the UK. Her work has been featured on BBC radio and television, and her first book-length collection Bear (Bloodaxe Books, 2017) was one of the Telegraph's 50 Best Books of the Year.
The author of numerous pamphlets, her work has been commended by the Forward Prizes, shortlisted for the Michael Marks Awards, and published in many magazines and anthologies including Poetry, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Prototype and Salt's Best British Poetry series.
Her debut comic Golden Rage (Image Comics) is a dystopian feminist satire which Booklist described as 'as heartbreaking as it is entertaining'. She also writes and teaches poetry comics. Her poetry comics collaboration with Tom Humberstone, Introduction to Charts, won the Selkie Award for Best Narrative Comic. She and Tom co-edited Over the Line: An Introduction to Poetry comics (Sidekick Books) about which Alan Moore said: 'I really can’t recommend this venture highly enough.' She has also edited comics including the New York Times bestselling The Wicked + The Divine (Image Comics).
She is editor of the online poetry journal PERVERSE, whose poems have been shortlisted in the Forward Prizes for Best Single Poem several times. She teaches for the Poetry School. She previously worked both at the National Poetry Library in London and as Director of the Poetry Book Fair, and is now based in the south west of England. Her second book-length collection, Low, was published by Bloodaxe in 2021, and is an exploration of identity in the face of miscarriage and loss.
Author photo: Mauricio Molizane de Souza
