Roshni Gallagher is a poet from Leeds of mixed Indo-Guyanese and Irish heritage. She lives in Edinburgh. She has received an Edwin Morgan Poetry Award (2022) and a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award (2022), and was joint winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize in 2024. Her pamphlet Bird Cherry was published by VERVE Poetry Press in 2023. Her first book-length collection, Even the Trees, is published by Bloodaxe Books in September 2026, and is on the longlist for the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection 2026 (one of the Forward Prizes). Her work has appeared in a variety of literary publications including Best Scottish Poems, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, Irish Pages and Magma. She has an MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from the University of St Andrews.
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