Lisa Kelly is half Danish and has single-sided deafness from childhood mumps. Her first collection, A Map Towards Fluency (Carcanet 2019), was shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. Her second collection, The House of the Interpreter (Carcanet 2023), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She is learning British Sign Language and has a Signature level 6 qualification. She is co-editor of What Meets the Eye? The Deaf Perspective (Arachne Press 2021).
Supported by Arts Council England