Demi Anter

Demi Anter is a poet, actor and teacher originally from California, now living in London after five years in Berlin.

Her work spans film, photography, music, performance, writing, and design. Her poetry and essays have been published by Magma, Ninth Letter, ROPES, The Selkie, Porter House Review, and The Times (UK) among others. Her poem "Eyelashes" was broadcast by BBC Radio London in 2020.

Demi has been a featured spoken word artist at Glastonbury Festival, Loud Poets' "Best of Fringe" at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Electric Picnic Festival, and Poetry Ireland. She is the winner of the second annual Cursed Murphy Spoken Word Award as well as numerous poetry slams.

In Berlin, Demi worked with Studio Olafur Eliasson and the solar energy nonprofit Little Sun. Her “Life-Size David Bowie Pillow” and brand PROXYSHOP have been covered by NME, Mashable, Nerdist, and Hellogiggles.

Demi's first full-length poetry collection, Small Machine, is forthcoming from Write Bloody UK in April 2022. It is available for pre-order worldwide. Musa Okwonga (In The End, It Was All About Love.) called Small Machine, "Tender, visceral, beautifully vulnerable.”

Chanel Miller, author of the NYT bestselling memoir Know My Name, has called it, "Strikingly luminous and soothing. This book celebrates existing through the moments we once believed to be unbearable.”

People's Poetry Podcast has called Demi “The Ray Davies of Spoken Word.”

Demi is currently completing an MFA in drama at at Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance in London. She is also a Patreon Ambassador. You can follow her work at www.patreon.com/demianter, or on her website: www.demianter.com.