About

Krystelle Bamford’s work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, bath magg and a number of anthologies including the Best New British and Irish Poets 2019–2021 (Eyewear). She is a 2019 Primers (Nine Arches Press) poet and was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Born in France and raised in the US, she now lives in Edinburgh with her partner and two kids.

Her debut novel Idle Grounds will be published by Hutchinson Heinemann (UK) and Scribner (US) in 2025.