Abegail Morley’s debut collection, How to Pour Madness into a Teacup, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and in 2021 she was Highly Commended in the prize’s single poem category. Her collections The Unmapped Woman and The Skin Diary are published by Nine Arches Press, and Snow Child and Eva and George – Sketches in Pen and Brush (inspired by the paintings of George Grosz) are published by Pindrop Press. Abegail has also published two pamphlets, The Memory of Water and In the Curator’s Hands.

She has been published in various magazines including Agenda, Magma, Poetry Review, Stand and The Spectator and her books have been reviewed in the Time Literary Supplement.

She was a commissioned poets for The Globe Theatre’s 2015 poetry series, The Voice and the Echo performed at the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse and was named by The Huffington Post as one of Five British Poets to Watch. She has been Poet in Residence at Riverhill Himalayan Gardens and Scotney Castle, Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year, and has been shortlisted in various competitions including the Winchester Poetry Prize and the Wells Open Poetry Competition.

Abegail co-founded EKPHRASIS with Emer Gillespie and Catherine Smith, bringing poets together to perform at The Royal Academy of Art and The British Library, as well as co-founding Against the Grain Press with Jessica Mookherjee and Karen Dennison, an independent press that published 24 fabulous poets in seven years.

Abegail is an experienced creative writing teacher and mentor.