S. M. L. Yau

Samantha Yau was born in Birmingham, UK to a British mother of English, Jewish and Jamaican heritage and a Hong Kong born father of Hakka Chinese and Taiwanese heritage. She spent her early life in Hong Kong before returning to the UK. She is proud to come from a working class background and is a dyslexic and dyscalculic poet. She graduated from Newman University with a 2:1 honours degree in Psychology BSc in 2015 and is currently an educator in the West Midlands. Her poetry centres largely upon her identity, womanhood and mental health. You can connect with her on her website at https://www.smlyau.co.uk/ and on Instagram (@smlyau).